tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78001626048064175922024-03-15T18:10:10.657-07:00Second FrontA pioneering avatar performance art group in Second LifeAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04830596873463938368noreply@blogger.comBlogger80125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7800162604806417592.post-47426299949686261722008-07-03T17:16:00.000-07:002008-12-11T08:10:12.447-08:00Tragedy and a New BlogHey virtual performance people....<br /><br />This is the last post to the SF 1.0 blog, as we are in the process of making a spiffy new SF site, and we have the <a href="http://www.secondfront.org/blog">SF Blog</a> going, where we will tell you all about June 30th's Iron Lung Grand Prix at Amsterdam. We smoked the crowd with clouds of cigarettes, other "stuff, and drove our jaunty jalopies made of |Soviet-era Iron Lungs around the Dam...<br /><br />More soon.<br /><br />TRAGEDY STRIKES Second Front!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Yw5ZTDA4mIU/SG1vPFEg2DI/AAAAAAAAAAU/jgE8zdLzNTU/s1600-h/anvil_001.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Yw5ZTDA4mIU/SG1vPFEg2DI/AAAAAAAAAAU/jgE8zdLzNTU/s200/anvil_001.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5218949848042100786" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Yes, it's true! (Well, maybe...)<br />Only days after the Grand Theft Avatar performance, a freak mishap claimed the lives of SF'ers Wirxli FlimFlam and AliseIborg Zhaoying. During a rehearsal for |SL5B, a 10m anvil was accidentally dropped that was not set to "Phantom" and smashed them to bits (or bytes, or pixels). A virtual memorial was held with SF & friends in attendance, Bit from Tron, MegaByte from ReBoot, and Buzz Lightyear. <br /><br />Well, maybe it's not exactly true.<br />The good news is that Jeremy and Penny were accepted to Graduate School in Vancouver. But conversely, they join the ranks of SF Emiritii that have thrown pies at the virtual world (or pizzas, at least). These things happen, but for them it's a good thing, because they don't need to be worried about the likes of the evil Investor Allen and the invading alien horde of the USS Allenvest.<br /><br />Oh, wait... that's another story.<br />Hey - see you on the other blog...<br /><br />Patrick/Man.Patlichtyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17349492478201002463noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7800162604806417592.post-73664807039710134982008-05-12T01:09:00.000-07:002008-12-11T08:10:12.572-08:00News Flash! Bank heist was an Inside Job!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_67DNriNNHHY/SCpRyf6LYtI/AAAAAAAAAKU/woW4qRIyEVI/s1600-h/SF-HeistWir%26AliseComic.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_67DNriNNHHY/SCpRyf6LYtI/AAAAAAAAAKU/woW4qRIyEVI/s320/SF-HeistWir%26AliseComic.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5200058647753482962" /></a><br /><br />Personal Secretary (AliseIborg Zhaoying) working undercover for the robbers performs a ‘laptop’ dance in order to distract the Bank Manager (Wirxli FlimFlam) just seconds before the robbers storm the bank.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"><br />In Grand Theft Avatar, Second Front challenges the authenticity and embodiment of virtual identities by assuming avatar identities including those of Camille Utterback, Char Davies, Howard Rheingold and Christiane Paul to commit a parodied staging of a bank hold-up of the Linden treasury. As the robbers plotted their raid, it was just another regular work day for the bank staff that included Gazira Babeli as the Janitor, Bibbe Oh as the Bank Receptionist (looking like the reformed Patty Hearst), Wirxli FlimFlam as the Bank Manager (looking very Howard Rheingold-ish even in Wirxli's signature purple) and AliseIborg Zhaoying as the Personal Secretary. With one exception - the Personal Secretary was actually a double-crosser working on the inside for the robbers and was doing her best to distract the Bank Manager from the drone of the approaching robber-copter above.<br /><br />Lounging in our post-heist lap of luxury, and not having to work in our boring bank jobs, some of us at Second Front are finding the time to be philosophers, pondering on such lofty questions as: Who is my avatar self? How much of my Pre-Second Life self am I investing in my avatar? Can we actually own our avatar identity? If not, is it possible to steal virtual identities? and even if it's verging on paranoia, should we ask ourselves who or what really does - Linden?! YIKES! We welcome all you Second Front groupies to send us your comments and to help us do some very serious soul searching. <br /></span>Penny Brownehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00851790439664415256noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7800162604806417592.post-45298511123762774722008-04-23T12:37:00.000-07:002008-12-11T08:10:31.576-08:00Grand Theft AvatarLast week, Second Front did a live performance at the San Francisco Art Institute on a panel titled "From Cinema to Machinima" (moderated by <a href="http://switch.sjsu.edu/nextswitch/switch_engine/front/users.php?w=49">Christiane Paul</a> and <a href="http://www.lynnhershman.com/">Lynn Hershman Leeson</a>). <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_hhjEsr-y4GQ/SBA45fsBnLI/AAAAAAAAAG8/VuPs-eWj4Nw/s1600-h/lynden_treasury_800.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_hhjEsr-y4GQ/SBA45fsBnLI/AAAAAAAAAG8/VuPs-eWj4Nw/s400/lynden_treasury_800.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5192712930768034994" border="0" /></a>The problem is that Second Front is out of cash. Dead broke. We're forced resort to extreme measures.<br /><br />Here is our hit: The Linden Treasury.<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_hhjEsr-y4GQ/SA-S7_sBm-I/AAAAAAAAAFU/7JQpOSKGrJM/s1600-h/liz_cop_sk_800.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_hhjEsr-y4GQ/SA-S7_sBm-I/AAAAAAAAAFU/7JQpOSKGrJM/s400/liz_cop_sk_800.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5192530454787496930" border="0" /></a>Don't let the doe eyes and the dragonfly wings fool you: the vaults were heavily guarded (guard is our own <a href="http://www.lizsolo.com/">Lizsolo Mathilde</a>).<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_hhjEsr-y4GQ/SA-TjfsBnAI/AAAAAAAAAFk/3fI3OcglxfA/s1600-h/gta_conference_1_pl_800.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_hhjEsr-y4GQ/SA-TjfsBnAI/AAAAAAAAAFk/3fI3OcglxfA/s400/gta_conference_1_pl_800.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5192531133392329730" border="0" /></a><a href="http://www.transpiresl.blogspot.com/">Tran Spire</a>, <a href="http://www.kildall.com/">Great Escape</a>, <a href="http://www.voyd.com/voyd/">Man Michinaga</a> and Fau Ferdinand assembled in the "evil genius" room to plan the heist. Not only do we want to pocket some Linden Dollars for ourselves; we also planned to <span style="font-weight: bold;">free</span> the currency from the virtual bank.<br /><br />After all, Linden Labs owns huge swaths of land, they make their own laws and the mint their own currency. They essentially are a nation-state.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_hhjEsr-y4GQ/SA-Us_sBnCI/AAAAAAAAAF0/7tVJXydTpmM/s1600-h/gta_conference_2_pl_800.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_hhjEsr-y4GQ/SA-Us_sBnCI/AAAAAAAAAF0/7tVJXydTpmM/s400/gta_conference_2_pl_800.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5192532396112714786" border="0" /></a>First, we donned costumes to resemble those on the panel. Man Michinaga disguised himself as Christiane Paul. Fau Ferdinand is <a href="http://www.camilleutterback.com/">Camille Utterback</a> toting a cute scarf and giant gun.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_hhjEsr-y4GQ/SBA4mvsBnKI/AAAAAAAAAG0/l0H6Ubt4jHc/s1600-h/gta_char_davies_dj_800.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_hhjEsr-y4GQ/SBA4mvsBnKI/AAAAAAAAAG0/l0H6Ubt4jHc/s400/gta_char_davies_dj_800.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5192712608645487778" border="0" /></a>Tran Spire looks suspiciously like <a href="http://www.immersence.com/">Char Davies</a> — armed and tres dangereux.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_hhjEsr-y4GQ/SA-VjvsBnDI/AAAAAAAAAF8/vIlm3uyDg9k/s1600-h/gta_snibbe__sk_800.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_hhjEsr-y4GQ/SA-VjvsBnDI/AAAAAAAAAF8/vIlm3uyDg9k/s400/gta_snibbe__sk_800.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5192533336710552626" border="0" /></a>And Great Escape assumed the identity of <a href="http://snibbe.com/">Scott Snibbe</a>, mild-mannered mastermind.<br /><br /></div></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_hhjEsr-y4GQ/SA-X8_sBnEI/AAAAAAAAAGE/dRqkPpx1Dq4/s1600-h/gta_heli_arrives_ja_800.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_hhjEsr-y4GQ/SA-X8_sBnEI/AAAAAAAAAGE/dRqkPpx1Dq4/s400/gta_heli_arrives_ja_800.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5192535969525505090" border="0" /></a>Stick 'em up! Here you can see us arriving in the copter. The janitor (played by <a href="http://www.gazirababeli.com/">Gazira Babeli</a>) stopped scrubbing the floors and put her hands in the air. Smart move.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_hhjEsr-y4GQ/SA-YkvsBnFI/AAAAAAAAAGM/m93BQIaMeNg/s1600-h/gta_bibbe_800.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_hhjEsr-y4GQ/SA-YkvsBnFI/AAAAAAAAAGM/m93BQIaMeNg/s400/gta_bibbe_800.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5192536652425305170" border="0" /></a> Patty Hearst (played by <a href="http://www.bibbe.com/">Bibbe Oh</a>) was the bank receptionist. Sigh, we miss the days when Patty was fun.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_hhjEsr-y4GQ/SA-Y9_sBnGI/AAAAAAAAAGU/FQJqh9MwX2E/s1600-h/gta_explodes_ja_800.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_hhjEsr-y4GQ/SA-Y9_sBnGI/AAAAAAAAAGU/FQJqh9MwX2E/s400/gta_explodes_ja_800.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5192537086217002082" border="0" /></a>KA-BOOM! We used custom-built explosives to crack the vault. Yikes! Howard went down. We didn't mean to hurt anyone...<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_hhjEsr-y4GQ/SA-aSPsBnHI/AAAAAAAAAGc/cQ6lmN-cWmw/s1600-h/gta_inside_vault_sk_800.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_hhjEsr-y4GQ/SA-aSPsBnHI/AAAAAAAAAGc/cQ6lmN-cWmw/s400/gta_inside_vault_sk_800.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5192538533620980850" border="0" /></a>A-HA! Sacks of Linden dollars. Great Escape grabs all he can while gunfire erupts in the background.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_hhjEsr-y4GQ/SA-bofsBnII/AAAAAAAAAGk/yyiyk3jE9fA/s1600-h/gta_heli_release_2_ja_800.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_hhjEsr-y4GQ/SA-bofsBnII/AAAAAAAAAGk/yyiyk3jE9fA/s400/gta_heli_release_2_ja_800.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5192540015384697986" border="0" /></a>We hop in the copter with the police in hot pursuit. Fly away money, be free!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_hhjEsr-y4GQ/SA-byvsBnJI/AAAAAAAAAGs/cdtHRkp4eSU/s1600-h/gta_strangelove_front_sk_800.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_hhjEsr-y4GQ/SA-byvsBnJI/AAAAAAAAAGs/cdtHRkp4eSU/s400/gta_strangelove_front_sk_800.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5192540191478357138" border="0" /></a>As the grand finale, we hop on a H-Bombs and ride them Slim Pickens style into the sunset. Yahoo! Yee-haw!<br /><br /><br /><br />Photos courtesy of: Jeff Aldrich, Great Escape, Tran Spire, Man Michinaga, Bibbe Oh and Aliselborg Zhaoying.Scott Kildall a.k.a. Great Escapehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01428135530199124016noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7800162604806417592.post-50027076561587773142008-04-04T21:46:00.000-07:002008-12-11T08:10:48.424-08:00Minotaure Haledol Dreams...Behind The Scenes...<embed src="http://static.ning.com/odysseyart/widgets/video/flvplayer/flvplayer.swf?v=3.0.1%3A3917" FlashVars="config_url=http%3A%2F%2Fodysseyart.ning.com%2Fvideo%2Fvideo%2FshowPlayerConfig%3Fid%3D685033%253AVideo%253A15683%26x%3DQZkMzip4WpaXxph20c2RwK9PbqYW5oy4&video_smoothing=on&autoplay=off&layout=external_site" width="448" height="364" scale="noscale" wmode="transparent" allowScriptAccess="always" allowFullScreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"> </embed> <br /><small><a href="http://odysseyart.ning.com/video/video">Find more videos like this on <em>Odyssey Contemporary Art and Performance</em></a></small><br /><br /><em>This video of edited raw "rehearsal" and "performance" footage is by the Curator of the <a href="http://museodelmetaverso.ning.com/">Museo del Metaverso</a>, <a href="http://odysseyart.ning.com/profile/RoxeloBabenco">Roxelo Babenco</a>. This video is fascinating in that it shows the blOOpers, glitches and <a href="https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Glossary#Sim">sim</a> crashes. What is the point of a live performance without these special features? ;-)</em><br /><br />Hey there Minotauring Marble-dumpers, Padded Cellmates and Hipster Haledolts!<br /><br />Finally, we have had enough time to reflect at "length" about our most recent performance that took place at <a href="http://rhizomatic.wordpress.com/2008/03/17/dorkbot-session-announcement-3/">Dorkbot Paris</a> called "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TX_xrIblAys">Haledol Dreams of The Minotaure</a>". <br /><br />We were successful with our attempts to blur the once-rigid events known as "rehearsal" and "official performance" into one epic and overblown theatrical <a href="http://www.artmuseum.net/w2vr/timeline/Wagner.html">Gesamtkunstwerk</a> escapade - an insane one, at that! <br /><br />Here is a basic list of the movements for this performance....This was originally drafted by <a href="http://odysseyart.ning.com/profile/Fauchard410">Fau Ferdinand</a> and <a href="http://www.myspace.com/bibbeoh">Bibbe Oh</a> and revised by the rest of <a href="http://transition.turbulence.org/blog/2007/04/16/domenico-quaranta-s-interview-with/">Second Front</a>...<br /><br /><em><strong>I - "Rehearsal" </strong><br />This was intended to confuse the audience and question the <a href="http://www.realtimearts.net/article/77/8374">borderlines</a> where formal theater and "just playing around" blur. Since all of <a href="http://www.secondlife.com">Second Life</a> is BOTH a "rehearsal" and a "performance" 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, we thought we would have a movement that would reflect this.<br /><br /><strong>II - "Part 1"</strong><br /><br />As the audience arrives and takes their seats in the padded room, the Nurses are already in place in yellow plastic chairs and the patients roam around the space playing their (dancing and wailing) animations. In addition to a selection of anims, each Patient has a wall they may attach as a proximity reaction when another avatar is perceived to be too close. When the Nurses spy a behavior they do not like, they react by shooting a hypodermic (enema sized needle) at the offending patient(s).<br /> <br /><strong>III - "Part 2"</strong><br /><br />Fau/Minotaure freaks out at a Nurse and is shot with a hypodermic and is rendered semi-conscious. Great Escape as <a href="http://www.mythweb.com/heroes/theseus/index.html">Theseus</a> approaches and offers Fau/Mino a tango. They dance.<br />The patients continue to improvise--but without the use of walls.<br /><br /> NO SMOKING<br /> <br /> YOU WILL BE TIED TODAY <br /><br />Fau/Minotaure is furious! <br /><br /><strong>IV - "Part 3"</strong><br /><br />Fau counter-attacks by charging with a goring animation. <br /> <br />Liz (one of the nurses) shoots many syringes into Fau/Mino as she is charging--Fau falls. The inmates go out of control...<br /><br /><strong>THE END</strong></em><br /><br />This event was curated by <a href="http://odysseyart.ning.com/profile/evolutie">Evo Szuyuan</a> and hosted at <a href="http://lacantine.org/">La Cantine Numerique in Paris</a> in <a href="http://www.getafirstlife.com">RL</a>. If you do not believe this actually happened, just put on a beret to look like an <a href="http://theartiste.com/">Artiste</a> and head down to:<br /><em>151 rue <a href="http://www.pariserve.tm.fr/English/paris/montmart.htm">Montmartre</a>, dans le <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passage_des_Panoramas">Passage des Panoramas</a>, <a href="http://www.learningmedias.com/ld/images/stories/artiste2002.jpg">Paris</a><br /><a href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Paris/2nd_arrondissement">Métro Grands Boulevards</a></em><br />...and knock <a href="http://www.ministryofart.se/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/p6210967-garden-lectur-rz.jpg">536</a> times and ask for documentation from whomever is still watching re-runs of this momentous and historic event.<br /><br />Speaking of re-runs, here are some photos from this performance...<br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R-idmkgPeMI/AAAAAAAACDk/Ji4H_do_vJo/s1600-h/outside.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R-idmkgPeMI/AAAAAAAACDk/Ji4H_do_vJo/s400/outside.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5181564657249253570" /></a><em><strong>Photo by <a href="http://www.kildall.com">Great Escape</a>.</strong> This is the official entrance to the building. As you can see, this was a well postered event... </em><br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R-idPEgPeLI/AAAAAAAACDc/OoRflDE9X_0/s1600-h/minotaur.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R-idPEgPeLI/AAAAAAAACDc/OoRflDE9X_0/s400/minotaur.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5181564253522327730" /></a><em><strong>Photo by <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2007/07/olga-wunderlich-interviews-great-escape.html">Great Escape</a>.</strong> Here is a pic of <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2007/10/fau-ferdinand-has-joined-second-front.html">Fau Ferdinand</a> getting ready to perform as the Minotaure.</em> <br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R-ic30gPeKI/AAAAAAAACDU/rA0Sx3cBvaE/s1600-h/mino2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R-ic30gPeKI/AAAAAAAACDU/rA0Sx3cBvaE/s400/mino2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5181563854090369186" /></a><em>Here is <a href="http://wirxliflimflam.blogspot.com">Wirxli</a> (yes, the blogger of this post) in the foreground with the audience and other Second Fronters including: <a href="http://www.simulex.com">Aliseiborg Zhaoying</a>, <a href="http://www.kildall.com">Great Escape </a>and <a href="http://odysseyart.ning.com/profile/Fauchard410">Fau Ferdinand</a>..<a href="http://wordpress.com/tag/osprey-therian/">Osprey Therian</a> is one of the audience avatars who <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2008/03/haledol-dreams-of-minotaure.html">recorded a very classy video</a>...</em><br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R-icpEgPeJI/AAAAAAAACDM/ckYjYcYW1bo/s1600-h/mino3.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R-icpEgPeJI/AAAAAAAACDM/ckYjYcYW1bo/s400/mino3.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5181563600687298706" /></a><em>Here is <a href="http://odysseyart.ning.com/profile/Wirxli">Wirxli</a> posing with the sexxxy nurses <a href="http://www.lizsolo.com/lizsolo.html">Lizsolo Mathilde</a> and <a href="http://odysseyart.ning.com/profile/Chi55555">Chi5 Shenzhou</a>.</em><br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R-icWUgPeII/AAAAAAAACDE/73rqvPbZ_gI/s1600-h/padded.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R-icWUgPeII/AAAAAAAACDE/73rqvPbZ_gI/s400/padded.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5181563278564751490" /></a><em><strong>Photo by Great Escape.</strong> Here is a pic of <a href="http://transpiresl.blogspot.com">Tran Spire</a> with his competing <a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/j655138140lu3232/">Jesus robe</a> as well as further appearances by Alise, Liz, Chi5, Wirxli (sitting down) and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theseus">Theseus</a> aka. Great Escape...</em><br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R-icJEgPeHI/AAAAAAAACC8/9iikOW4_j8U/s1600-h/nurses.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R-icJEgPeHI/AAAAAAAACC8/9iikOW4_j8U/s400/nurses.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5181563050931484786" /></a><em>Here is a kinky pic of Liz and Chi5 sitting by themselves with enema-sized needles.</em><br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R-ib8UgPeGI/AAAAAAAACC0/rUwXoWijDWs/s1600-h/chi_5_syringe.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R-ib8UgPeGI/AAAAAAAACC0/rUwXoWijDWs/s400/chi_5_syringe.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5181562831888152674" /></a><em><strong>Photo by Great Escape.</strong> Here is a close-up pic of Chi5 with a syringe...</em><br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R-ibxkgPeFI/AAAAAAAACCs/hT28Q4VNFa4/s1600-h/liz_chi5_ge.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R-ibxkgPeFI/AAAAAAAACCs/hT28Q4VNFa4/s400/liz_chi5_ge.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5181562647204558930" /></a><em><strong>Photo by Great Escape.</strong> Here is another action shot of Liz, Great Escape/Theseus and Chi5.</em><br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R-ibYEgPeEI/AAAAAAAACCk/YbZuak66Hns/s1600-h/mino5.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R-ibYEgPeEI/AAAAAAAACCk/YbZuak66Hns/s400/mino5.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5181562209117894722" /></a><em>Here we can see the direct Jesus Idol competition between the equally delusional Wirxli and Tran as competing Jesus-freaks. The brand new Second Fronter <a href="http://www.myspace.com/bibbeoh">Bibbe Oh</a> is also seen in this pic. She was involved in many awesome pose-actions!</em><br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R-ibIUgPeDI/AAAAAAAACCc/-URXDJnUz6c/s1600-h/mino6.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R-ibIUgPeDI/AAAAAAAACCc/-URXDJnUz6c/s400/mino6.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5181561938534955058" /></a> <em>Here is Theseus (GE) chasing after the <a href="http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/greeks/religion/myths/pictures/minotaur.jpg">minotaur</a> with <a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/Rp8c6tfvGkI/AAAAAAAABA0/axLZr-eGAMQ/s1600-h/goggag02_edited-1.jpg">Gog Mannonen</a> also doing an impromptu intervention...In this instance, we have text that is calling out the performance "<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/24/secondlife_greygoo_attack/">goo</a>" that we were able to control in realtime...Quite honestly, this kind of text looks like <a href="http://home.att.net/~chuckayoub/Horse_Latitudes_lyrics.html">Jim Morrison's poetry </a>though...heheheheheh! ;-)</em><br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R-ia5UgPeCI/AAAAAAAACCU/7P1NHcNTEdY/s1600-h/mino7.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R-ia5UgPeCI/AAAAAAAACCU/7P1NHcNTEdY/s400/mino7.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5181561680836917282" /></a><em>Here is a pic of Fau the Minotaure hiding behind the seats, Alise with her <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestor_(mythology)">Nestorian tablet</a>, GE/Theseus and Wirxli...</em><br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R-ianUgPeBI/AAAAAAAACCM/Li1LgpQJg5A/s1600-h/mino8.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R-ianUgPeBI/AAAAAAAACCM/Li1LgpQJg5A/s400/mino8.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5181561371599271954" /></a><em>Once again, here is a great action shot of Bibbe flying through the air... In addition, we have Fau, Wirxli, Alise, Bibbe, Liz, Tran, and Chi5 ensuring that the spirit the "rehearsal" is still in effect...</em><br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R-iaYEgPeAI/AAAAAAAACCE/KiH4LZ7hU3M/s1600-h/mino9.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R-iaYEgPeAI/AAAAAAAACCE/KiH4LZ7hU3M/s400/mino9.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5181561109606266882" /></a><em>Here is Wirxli (me) officially announcing the rehearsal, at last..sigh! What was funny is that we had a rehearsal for our official rehearsal...HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! O, The Agony! ;-)</em><br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R-iaMEgPd_I/AAAAAAAACB8/r6an1IlwGio/s1600-h/mino10.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R-iaMEgPd_I/AAAAAAAACB8/r6an1IlwGio/s400/mino10.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5181560903447836658" /></a><em>What is a good performance without some pyrotechnics and other rock'n'roll atmospherics? We managed to rez some virtual <a href="http://media.techeblog.com/images/DryIce.jpg">dry ice</a> that hovered mere pixels above the padded cell's floor...</em><br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R-iZ1EgPd-I/AAAAAAAACB0/uNvFJJF2N0g/s1600-h/mino11.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R-iZ1EgPd-I/AAAAAAAACB0/uNvFJJF2N0g/s400/mino11.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5181560508310845410" /></a><em>Here we have <a href="http://www.orange-island.com/?p=322">Rep Zabaleta from Dorkbot Paris</a> having a puff of some leftover virtual dry ice pixels while we <a href="http://www.rez.org/index.php">rez</a> the crosses...</em><br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R-iZoUgPd9I/AAAAAAAACBs/FhRat2S6oyc/s1600-h/mino12.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R-iZoUgPd9I/AAAAAAAACBs/FhRat2S6oyc/s400/mino12.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5181560289267513298" /></a><em>In order to guarantee multiple readings of our performance, we had ensured that there would be enough <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0375210/">white noise</a> on the video screen for spontaneous <a href="http://www.worlditc.com/">ITCs</a>... On another note, <a href="http://www.odysseykunst.com">Odyssey Island's</a> curator <a href="http://odysseyart.ning.com/profile/SLContemporaryArt">Sugar Seville</a> was also in the audience...</em><br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R-iZWkgPd8I/AAAAAAAACBk/8_Nw-Zkkh_M/s1600-h/Minotaure2_001_Tran.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R-iZWkgPd8I/AAAAAAAACBk/8_Nw-Zkkh_M/s400/Minotaure2_001_Tran.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5181559984324835266" /></a><em><strong>Photo by Tran Spire.</strong> Here is another angle of the white noise. The ensuing asylum cacophony still haunts both the space and the audience. </em><br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R-iYvEgPd7I/AAAAAAAACBc/ISrKS_Scq0Y/s1600-h/Minotaure_006_Tran.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R-iYvEgPd7I/AAAAAAAACBc/ISrKS_Scq0Y/s400/Minotaure_006_Tran.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5181559305720002482" /></a><em>It looks like Tran has taken full messianic control of the white noise on the screen...well.... at least he believes he is channeling the 10 Commandments there, anyway... Alise is also in this photo as is an Easter rabbit (it was Easter Friday after all) and the official Dorkbot poster managed to make a special cameo appearance. Ok ok, posters do not have a choice like avatars do...they are forced to make an appearance since they are (usually) inanimate objects...unless they are goo-jects ;-)</em><br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R-iKLkgPd6I/AAAAAAAACBU/Rn-_5q8Asr0/s1600-h/mino13.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R-iKLkgPd6I/AAAAAAAACBU/Rn-_5q8Asr0/s400/mino13.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5181543302671857570" /></a><em>This photo depicts an epic battle between GE and Fau... This battle is quite epic since many additional Second Fronters are involved in the action (if you can call it that). For example, Tran is on the floor writhing in messianic ecstacy while <a href="http://www.facebook.com/people/Nicolas_Barrial/676037391">Nick Rhodes </a>(<a href="http://www.slnn.com/index.php?SCREEN=article&about=orange-metaversatility">Orange Island Curator</a>) and assorted <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very_Important_Person">VIPs</a> from the <a href="http://avatarorchestra.org">Avatar Orchestra Metaverse</a> including the <a href="http://www.evolutie.org/bio.html">Evo Szuyuan</a> the event's curator can also be seen in the audience...</em><br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R-iJ90gPd5I/AAAAAAAACBM/RKVCuKaQtQ8/s1600-h/mino14.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R-iJ90gPd5I/AAAAAAAACBM/RKVCuKaQtQ8/s400/mino14.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5181543066448656274" /></a><em>Theseus takes a swipe at the Minotaure while Tran reaches his Christian climax when he <a href="http://www.artcyclopedia.com/featuredarticle-2001-04.html">passionately</a> exclaims "<a href="http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080127193805AAciDiL">I HAVE FALLEN...AND I CAN'T GET UP</a>"...</em><br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R-iJwUgPd4I/AAAAAAAACBE/nHAhpcdA1h0/s1600-h/mino15.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R-iJwUgPd4I/AAAAAAAACBE/nHAhpcdA1h0/s400/mino15.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5181542834520422274" /></a><em>This picture is very compositionally classical in that we see more action on the ground and a <a href="http://www.berkshirefinearts.com/images/upload/images/200_RomeGerome2.jpg">bigger audience for the colesseum slaying</a>...</em><br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R-iJgkgPd3I/AAAAAAAACA8/c_yZLZTIxrM/s1600-h/mino16.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R-iJgkgPd3I/AAAAAAAACA8/c_yZLZTIxrM/s400/mino16.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5181542563937482610" /></a><em>"WHEN I AM SEDATED, I HAVE DELUSIONS THAT THIS IS A THEATRICAL PERFORMANCE..." - Wirxli FLimflam. Great Escape looks wounded but this might just be for...er... theatrical effect. People are not meant to be wounded during the "rehearsal", right? ;-) .. Maybe some of the audience members were beginning to clue in that the official performance was about to begin as <a href="http://odysseyart.ning.com/profile/Mariani">Paco Mariani</a> found his own nosebleed seat... Also, one of the Dorkbots was doing a pole dance in anticipation of the grand finale to come... I mentioned VIPs earlier and one prominent one in the audience was <a href="http://www.myspace.com/mysecondfilm">Finally Outlander</a> who lectured <a href="http://www.orange-island.com/?p=328">about his new film VolaVola earlier in the day</a>....</em><br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R-iJO0gPd2I/AAAAAAAACA0/H0UU8Dm_hrw/s1600-h/Minotaure2_002_Tran.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R-iJO0gPd2I/AAAAAAAACA0/H0UU8Dm_hrw/s400/Minotaure2_002_Tran.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5181542258994804578" /></a><em><strong>Photo by Tran Spire.</strong> Here is a rather gratuitous angle showing the wounded Great Escape plus the gang looking insane as usual.</em><br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R-iI9UgPd1I/AAAAAAAACAs/mhlDZCWuC7c/s1600-h/Minotaure2_003_Tran.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R-iI9UgPd1I/AAAAAAAACAs/mhlDZCWuC7c/s400/Minotaure2_003_Tran.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5181541958347093842" /></a><em><strong>Photo by Tran Spire.</strong> Here is a decent pic of Wirxli (me) grabbing one of the audience member's body by her head like a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marionette">marionette</a>...Is this what the Second Fronter <a href="http://www.gazirababeli.com">Gazira Babeli</a> meant when she thought Second Life reminder her of some kind of <a href="http://www.massively.com/2008/03/28/cinemassively-avatar-puppeteering-possibly-coming-to-second-lif/">twisted puppet show</a>? </em><br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R-iIxEgPd0I/AAAAAAAACAk/nQ4xcnPcW5g/s1600-h/Minotaure2_004_Tran.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R-iIxEgPd0I/AAAAAAAACAk/nQ4xcnPcW5g/s400/Minotaure2_004_Tran.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5181541747893696322" /></a><em><strong>Photo by Tran Spire.</strong> Once again, here is another zany shot of <a href="http://eyelevel.si.edu/2007/03/second_life_mee.html">Second Front</a>. </em><br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R-iIf0gPdzI/AAAAAAAACAc/IoGMcbkXSFU/s1600-h/Minotaure_005_Tran.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R-iIf0gPdzI/AAAAAAAACAc/IoGMcbkXSFU/s400/Minotaure_005_Tran.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5181541451540952882" /></a><em>This photo was taken due to the nice ambient lighting of the padded cell. One audience member looks like Gaz...is this Osprey?</em><br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R-iIMUgPdyI/AAAAAAAACAU/GtQzYG11whg/s1600-h/mino17.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R-iIMUgPdyI/AAAAAAAACAU/GtQzYG11whg/s400/mino17.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5181541116533503778" /></a><em>Here is an amusing audience shot that also shows Great Escape with Fau about 2 <a href="http://www.allthelyrics.com/lyrics/falco/tango_the_night-lyrics-145193.html">tango</a>.... Second Fronter VIP, <a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R19zyP0LgII/AAAAAAAABiU/vpJxtfbrFOY/s1600-h/miami10.jpg">Blued Food </a> is also out of rehab and back in the audience...</em><br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R-iH7UgPdxI/AAAAAAAACAM/lrTuQyhOhPc/s1600-h/rehearsal.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R-iH7UgPdxI/AAAAAAAACAM/lrTuQyhOhPc/s400/rehearsal.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5181540824475727634" /></a><em><strong>Photo by Great Escape.</strong> It took awhile before the crowd realized that we were still "rehearsing"....hee hee! The assembled crowd began to grow which was all we needed to prolong the theatrical chaos. In this photo Tran, Alise, Fau/GE (tango-ing), Wirxli (me) and Bibbe are visible...</em><br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R-iHu0gPdwI/AAAAAAAACAE/oRLoX2XFTsA/s1600-h/rise.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R-iHu0gPdwI/AAAAAAAACAE/oRLoX2XFTsA/s400/rise.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5181540609727362818" /></a><em><strong>Photo by Great Escape.</strong> Here are some speech balloons that we <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhwmhaZgd80">rezzed</a> when we said the magic word, "rise". Liz and Tran are also moonlighting in this pic. </em><br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R-iHeEgPdvI/AAAAAAAAB_8/cTTea_yvEWw/s1600-h/shock_treatment.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R-iHeEgPdvI/AAAAAAAAB_8/cTTea_yvEWw/s400/shock_treatment.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5181540321964553970" /></a><em><strong>Photo by Great Escape. </strong> GIMME SHOCK AND AWE TREATMENT! Here are some swarming Purpleized Iraqi flags and a speech balloon that says "Gimme Shock Treatment!" We can see more cameos from Alise, Wirxli and even Fau's bum is in this pic! Are you looking for an exit strategy at this point? ;-)</em><br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R-iGbEgPduI/AAAAAAAAB_0/D0-018EFk0M/s1600-h/tango1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R-iGbEgPduI/AAAAAAAAB_0/D0-018EFk0M/s400/tango1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5181539170913318626" /></a><em><strong>Photo by Great Escape. </strong>SHOCK AND AWWWWWWWWEEEE! Here is another tender tango pic.... </em><br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R-iGEUgPdtI/AAAAAAAAB_s/AVX4vgCSKbE/s1600-h/tango2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R-iGEUgPdtI/AAAAAAAAB_s/AVX4vgCSKbE/s400/tango2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5181538780071294674" /></a><em><strong>Photo by Great Escape. </strong>This pic is so extremely tender, you can even see Great Escape's facial details...talk about a close shave, eh?</em><br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R-iFxUgPdsI/AAAAAAAAB_k/aQoc_zqdzPY/s1600-h/tango3.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R-iFxUgPdsI/AAAAAAAAB_k/aQoc_zqdzPY/s400/tango3.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5181538453653780162" /></a><em><strong>Photo by Great Escape. </strong> Fau looks <a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary">fay</a> in this very touching tango.</em><br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R-iFekgPdrI/AAAAAAAAB_c/GFrgwi-jD2A/s1600-h/tango4.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R-iFekgPdrI/AAAAAAAAB_c/GFrgwi-jD2A/s400/tango4.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5181538131531232946" /></a><em><strong>Photo by Great Escape. </strong> AWWWWW(EEEE), they must be like, in love or something! ;-)</em><br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R-iFMEgPdqI/AAAAAAAAB_U/iQCJDujBQzI/s1600-h/tango5.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R-iFMEgPdqI/AAAAAAAAB_U/iQCJDujBQzI/s400/tango5.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5181537813703653026" /></a><em><strong>Photo by Great Escape. </strong> Are you sick of the sentimental tango pix yet? LOL! </em><br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R-iE3kgPdpI/AAAAAAAAB_M/CPMh-pwcLkA/s1600-h/tango6.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R-iE3kgPdpI/AAAAAAAAB_M/CPMh-pwcLkA/s400/tango6.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5181537461516334738" /></a><em><strong>Photo by Great Escape.</strong><br />HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Just when you thought you had seen the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Tango_in_Paris">last tango</a> pic... ;-)<br /><br /></em><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R-iEM0gPdoI/AAAAAAAAB_E/a0U6_PNe6Ao/s1600-h/theseus.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R-iEM0gPdoI/AAAAAAAAB_E/a0U6_PNe6Ao/s400/theseus.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5181536727076927106" /></a><em><strong>Photo by Great Escape (naturally).</strong> Here is a solo pic of Great Escape as Theseus..Check out those rippling <a href="http://www.worth1000.com/entries/199000/199498HMol_w.JPG">pex</a>!</em><br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R-iD7UgPdnI/AAAAAAAAB-8/WSgSzYyEaM8/s1600-h/mino18.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R-iD7UgPdnI/AAAAAAAAB-8/WSgSzYyEaM8/s400/mino18.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5181536426429216370" /></a><em>Here is a close up of Wirxli (me) with my token cross (I always fall back on a crutch such as a cross when I have nothing else to do in the performance). This pic can also be seen as an action shot of Great Escape... This is definitely a climax moment and not a blOOper as Fau is most certainly getting enema from Chi5 at this time... On a un-related note, I think everyone was in agreement that day that Samara Cioc had an AMAZING fire-extinguisher on her leg. </em><br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R-iDw0gPdmI/AAAAAAAAB-0/ByJqOnRjLz8/s1600-h/mino19.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R-iDw0gPdmI/AAAAAAAAB-0/ByJqOnRjLz8/s400/mino19.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5181536246040589922" /></a><em>This one last archive pic from our behind-the-scenes footage includes a close up of Alise and Wirxli (me) as well as Liz, Fau, Tran and Bibbe...</em><br /><br />Thanks for being patient and waiting for this posted equivalent of a "bonus feature" to arrive onto this blog! Please stay tuned for our up and coming performance premiering on April 14th, 2008 titled "Grand Theft Avatar 3, Heist City"...Jeremy O. Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05233583737368132332noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7800162604806417592.post-9227278122516935942008-03-27T01:11:00.000-07:002008-12-11T08:10:48.651-08:00We, Minotaur Dreams<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_67DNriNNHHY/R-tXRwuWFSI/AAAAAAAAAJ8/9WZf1ADctxg/s1600-h/SFMinotaur-mino19.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_67DNriNNHHY/R-tXRwuWFSI/AAAAAAAAAJ8/9WZf1ADctxg/s320/SFMinotaur-mino19.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5182331758868567330" /></a><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">Photograph shows AliseIborg Zhaoying in 'AWAY' state due to sim crashing with Wirxli Flimflam in far right, Tran Spire and Liz Solo in background.</span><br /><br />Hallucinating in absences, within the padded walls where mythical memory and unknowable circumstances clash. We are not what we seem, and the monstrous is beautifully fragile in the throes of sim crashing and uncertainties of our psyche. We drug our memory, drown in our stories of centuries ago to surface in the chaos of action - memory - action - consequences. The logic of disorder lives in a minotaur and we, within the traces of its dreams - ironic, benign, glorious.Penny Brownehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00851790439664415256noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7800162604806417592.post-13035762310163686572008-03-26T06:25:00.000-07:002008-03-26T06:33:41.481-07:00Haledol Dreams of the Minotaure<object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/TX_xrIblAys&hl=en"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/TX_xrIblAys&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object>Fau Ferdinandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12971361646645562918noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7800162604806417592.post-32250226772732424262008-02-16T22:53:00.000-08:002008-12-11T08:10:51.177-08:00Economie 0 - Upgrade! Paris....<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R7ewwe5aKaI/AAAAAAAABl0/0skbxo9L9CA/s1600-h/UpgradeParis3.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R7ewwe5aKaI/AAAAAAAABl0/0skbxo9L9CA/s400/UpgradeParis3.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5167793444404996514" /></a><em>This pic was taken at the beginning of the artist talk for <a href="http://incident.net/theupgrade/economie0/">Upgrade Paris</a>. The official website for the <a href="http://incident.net/theupgrade/economie0/stream.html">streaming live video</a> of the event is <a href="http://incident.net/theupgrade/economie0/">listed right on the picture itself</a>. </em><br /><br />Hey there Parisian Upgraders, <a href="http://www.essex.ac.uk/armedcon/images/country/headings/flags/senegal_flag_large.bmp">Senegalese Ultra-Nationalists</a>, and bribed critics!<br /><br />The intro pic above gives you the impression that our artist talk at <a href="http://transition.turbulence.org/blog/2008/02/04/live-stage-economie-0-paris/">Upgrade Paris</a> went smoothly and on time but actually for the first part of the day, we were unsure if we had schedule at the correct time! There was alot of confusion between AM and PM and SLT (<a href="http://www.secondlife.com">Second Life</a> Time/Pacific) time zones. Were we supposed to meet at 5 PM or 5AM and was it in France's local time zone or in SLT? One of the curators, <a href="http://freebitflows.t0.or.at/f/participants/marikadermineur">Toto Donat</a> had troubles signing on apparenty, so we could not find her online...we figured that maybe we had already missed our talk like 12 hours ago...sigh! There was no sign of any curator nor any other speaker (including a bunch of <a href="http://www.gawlab.net/">curators and artists from Senegal </a> who were scheduled before us).<br /><br />It was a good thing that we killed some time at <a href="http://eventful.com/events/jen-noel-club-neptune-2-slt-/E0-001-008598307-3">Club Neptune</a> just in case one of the curators would sign on and tell us what was happening. Fortunately, co-curator <a href="http://web.media.mit.edu/~dharry/sousreality/">Karolwojtyla Sobocinski</a> signed into <a href="http://www.secondlife.com">SL</a> in the nick of time and apologized for being late. <br /><br />Here is a pic of us dancing at <a href="http://eventful.com/events/speelo-snook-club-neptune-3-5-slt-/E0-001-005904216-4">Club Neptune</a> while waiting for the curator to show up...<br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R7ew5u5aKbI/AAAAAAAABl8/p3qiWjk6Xzk/s1600-h/UpgradeParis02.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R7ew5u5aKbI/AAAAAAAABl8/p3qiWjk6Xzk/s400/UpgradeParis02.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5167793603318786482" /></a><em>What better way to wait for a curator and discuss future shows than to dance your ass off?</em><br /><br />Waiting for the curator(s) to arrive was a good idea because we managed to talk alot about our earlier performances and they even publically acknowledged that we are now an "established institution"...wow! I guess it has been awhile since we formed in late 2006!<br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R7ewoe5aKZI/AAAAAAAABls/gS_3qXIAdC8/s1600-h/UpgradeParis4.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R7ewoe5aKZI/AAAAAAAABls/gS_3qXIAdC8/s400/UpgradeParis4.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5167793306966043026" /></a><em>During the talk, it was slightly confusing as to exactly what was happening in Paris. There were two people in <a href="http://www.getafirstlife.com">RL</a> controlling Karol's <a href="http://www.secondlife.com">SL</a> avatar (Marika and <a href="http://rhizomatic.wordpress.com/2007/02/05/gourgous-encounters-defining-dorkbot/">Karol</a>, one guesses) and they were also fiddling with the video camera in Paris which we could not see...in fact, our <a href="http://www.secondlife.com">SL</a> audience only consisted of one avatar but that one avatar was a camera from which an indeterminate number of <a href="http://www.getafirstlife.com">RL</a> audience members were checking us out. Karol tried to keep us on topic with regards to the ways in which <a href="http://www.secondlife.com">SL's</a> economy influences our performance. We bribed Karol behind the scenes until he/she was content with our answer ;-) But basically, we talked about <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2006/11/breaking-news-1st-second-front.html">squatting abandoned corporate headquarters</a>, <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2007/05/pizza-slut-liz-solos-pov.html">delivering pizza for free</a>, <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2007/05/pizza-sluts-on-front-page-of-slenquirer.html">unintentionally interrupting stock market transactions</a>, bribing critics and <a href="http://fwwixliwirxli.blogspot.com/2007/04/fwwixlis-reunion-at-gazira-babelis-one.html">hiring bodyguards</a> for disproportionate prices. No one in their right mind would actually think we were really inspired by something as banal as the economy, right? Heheheheheh...Speaking of sponsorship to stimulate the economy, it was great to see <a href="http://www.arsvirtua.com">Ars Virtua's</a> logo represented at the venue.</em><br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R7ewc-5aKYI/AAAAAAAABlk/6wHUiN1Blbs/s1600-h/UpGradeParis5.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R7ewc-5aKYI/AAAAAAAABlk/6wHUiN1Blbs/s400/UpGradeParis5.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5167793109397547394" /></a><em>Wow! Look at that detailed <a href="http://gotads.blogspot.com/2007/01/prediction-google-avatar-world.html">Google Map</a>! What is that doing on the floor? It does not look like <a href="http://www.vedrashko.com/advertising/2006/09/wall-street-journal-on-second-life.html">Wall Street</a> at all! ;-) Ok ok, actually it is a map of Beijing...The artist talk was held on the site of <a href="http://institute.emerson.edu/vma/faculty/john_craig_freeman/imaging_place/imaging-placeSL/">JC Fremont's</a> installation, <a href="http://transition.turbulence.org/comp_07/proposals/freeman/index.html">Imaging Beijing</a>. As for the event itself, it was around this time that we were begging Karol (or perhaps Toto/<a href="http://incident.net/users/marika/wordpress/works/">Marika Dermineur</a> if she happened to be behind the avvie) to get the audience to ask us some questions because we were running out of anything relevant to say...usually, it only takes us a total of 2 minutes before we give up on talking about anything and feel the compulsion to <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2006/12/breaking-news-second-fronts-rehearsal.html">launch some rockets</a> and/or <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2007/03/martyr-sauce-performance-video.html">explode over and over again</a>! We were unusually patient and self-disciplined today...we even <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2007/10/second-front-performs-at-gate-opening.html">kept our clothes on</a>...phew!</em><br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R7ewVe5aKXI/AAAAAAAABlc/YFLJlnc1Ei4/s1600-h/UpGradeParis6.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R7ewVe5aKXI/AAAAAAAABlc/YFLJlnc1Ei4/s400/UpGradeParis6.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5167792980548528498" /></a><em><a href="http://www.myspace.com/bibbeoh">Bibbe Oh</a> was finally able to join us to wrap up the Q&A session with Upgrade Paris...She left the Club Neptune earlier at a time when we all felt that we were too late for our own talk but then <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibbe_Hansen">Bibbe</a> heeded a desperate <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant_messaging">IM </a>from us to rejoin the fray and answer a concluding question about the new <a href="http://secondlife.com/corporate/vat.php">European taxation system</a> in <a href="http://www.secondlife.com">Second Life</a>...it did not seem to matter though since only one of us in attendence was living in Europe.</em>Jeremy O. Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05233583737368132332noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7800162604806417592.post-51632484648399706022008-02-16T01:05:00.000-08:002008-12-11T08:10:55.946-08:00Second Wall-ker Art Center....<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R7PxIu5aKWI/AAAAAAAABlU/0JZXY3MgEhY/s1600-h/wally1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R7PxIu5aKWI/AAAAAAAABlU/0JZXY3MgEhY/s400/wally1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5166738329854159202" /></a><em> "Second <a href="http://www.walkerart.org/index.wac">Wall-ker Art Center</a> or Dancing About Architecture" (ZKM Island and Director's Lounge, Berlin 2008). Ok, this snapshot was taken just when co-performer <a href="http://post.thing.net/node/1207">Man Michinaga</a> was announcing the concept and context behind our dancing architecture performance. Because we announced all this, it comes as quite a surprise that <a href="http://primforge.com/2008-02-11/aom-2008-02/">some bloggers</a> felt "upset" by our performance because they felt <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griefer">griefed</a> by our dancing walls but it was not as if we did not tell people in advance what we were up to and it was OUR performance so there was nothing to grief. People were there to be a part of that performance so we did nothing out of context. When things are live, nothing can be predictable though...even after the context has been announced so when someone is invited to a <a href="http://www.realtimearts.net/article/77/8374">Second Front</a> performance, they need a little disclaimer typed out for them in order for them to understand what they are getting into. Anyway on another note, to prove that this event happened in realtime, you will notice that there was a tiny typo that says "mueum" rather than "museum"..If this was just a <a href="http://www.machinima.com">machinima</a> film, you would see everything typo-corrected to look SLick so there you are...that was a screenshot live as it happened.</em> <br /><br />Hey there <a href="http://4freadom.blogspot.com/2007/11/andy-warhol-bright-blue-mao-i.html">Blue Maomarines</a>, <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/pm/stories/s65357.htm">Blue Berliners</a>, <a href="http://youniverse.zkm.de/">ZKM-heads</a> and wispy wallflowers!<br /><br />Yes, the rumour is true! <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2007/12/art-basel-miami-vice.html">Second Front has managed to escape from rehab</a> and have returned to creating new performance art classics in <a href="http://www.secondlife.com">Second Life</a>!<br /><br />Second Front's performance last week called "Second Wall-ker Art Center - Dancing about Architecture" was a smash hit (hopefully the attendees did not get too sore from the smash hit...sigh)! This performance was actually a sequel to the original "Second Wall-ker Art Center" performance at the <a href="http://www.mart.trento.it/">MART Museum</a>.<br /><br /><a href="www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4dRJW3SMe4">Second Front</a> with the curatorial help of <a href="http://www.olgawunderlich.blogspot.com/">Olga Wunderlich</a> at the Director's Lounge and the <a href="http://on1.zkm.de/zkm/e/">ZKM</a> Staff ensured that the topography of virtual space has been restored to its most pure and natural state - that of a completely segregated ghetto of walled land-plots....heheheheheheheheh! This event was part of the <a href="http://www.berlinale.de/en/HomePage.html">Berlinale</a> in...yes! In <a href="http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/maps_and_graphs/2001/08/13/berlinwall2_256sq.jpg">Berlin</a>! <br /><br />We performed as an intermission of sorts for some other performance that had something to do with <a href="http://youniverse.zkm.de/node/31">boxing philosophers</a> or something somewhat profound like that...<br /><br />Well, there will be a video all about it very soon so for now, this is just a preliminary summary of what happened... In the meantime, here are some more photos for you...<br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R7Pw4e5aKVI/AAAAAAAABlM/0QDpDQPq9Tw/s1600-h/wally4.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R7Pw4e5aKVI/AAAAAAAABlM/0QDpDQPq9Tw/s400/wally4.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5166738050681284946" /></a><em>Speaking of realtime typos, this may have been a typo and/or an example of clever wit but it is quite interesting to hear <a href="http://www.mefeedia.com/tags/bobzilla/">Bobzilla Carnell</a> say "hell all" when the walls began to dance at a frenzied pace. This picture was taken to show the title-text clearly and also to focus on the fine detail of one of the walls (bricks, mortal and all).</em><br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R7PwrO5aKUI/AAAAAAAABlE/B6OIiM1-zTc/s1600-h/wally3.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R7PwrO5aKUI/AAAAAAAABlE/B6OIiM1-zTc/s400/wally3.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5166737823048018242" /></a><em>Here is a pic of co-performer <a href="http://www.myspace.com/bibbeoh">Bibbe Oh</a> getting "floored" by pressing the "h" key (h = horizontal)... Maybe people thought we were griefing them because some people felt as if they were trapped in the walls... This claustrophobic sensation should have only been temporary though unless they also had their eyes glued to that groovy disco <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Op_art">Op Art</a> floor...WHOA!</em><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R7Pwde5aKTI/AAAAAAAABk8/bB2Hoh82oRQ/s1600-h/wally2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R7Pwde5aKTI/AAAAAAAABk8/bB2Hoh82oRQ/s400/wally2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5166737586824816946" /></a><em><a href="http://www.bibbe.com/bibbe3.htm">Bibbe</a> was not the only person hooked on "h". Co-performer <a href="http://olgawunderlich.blogspot.com/2007/07/great-escape-artist.html">Great Escape</a> enjoyed assuming the horizontal position many times over... Walled floors like this look really great when acting as a counter-balance to the <a href="http://www.easterncurio.com/easten%20curio/D%20chinese%20cultural%20revolution/Photoes/D0002.jpg">Blue Mao</a> ceiling tiles...time for a <a href="http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/china/images/lin-biao2.jpg">cultural revolution</a>, comrades!</em> <br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R75A2-5aKeI/AAAAAAAABmU/ivRXGeWRBHg/s1600-h/AliseDollHead%233.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R75A2-5aKeI/AAAAAAAABmU/ivRXGeWRBHg/s400/AliseDollHead%233.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5169640735608809954" /></a><em>Here is <a href="http://www.simulex.com/">AliseIborg Zhaoying</a> showing off her new Post-<a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2007/12/art-basel-miami-vice.html">Rehab</a> look, that of an elliptical (or is it ecliptical?) doll-face....heheheheh...</em><br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R75AWO5aKdI/AAAAAAAABmM/AwO8hoteHac/s1600-h/SF-Wall%233High.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R75AWO5aKdI/AAAAAAAABmM/AwO8hoteHac/s400/SF-Wall%233High.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5169640172968094162" /></a><em>Here is an aerial view of <a href="http://blip.tv/users/view/AliseIborg">Alise</a> showing the viewer how it is easy to peel back the veil of <a href="http://www.the-avastar.com">SLebrity rehabilitation</a>. We can also see <a href="http://transpiresl.blogspot.com">Tran Spire's</a> <a href="http://www.blueprintsolution.com/store/fitcommerce/SupersizeMe_Screenshot.jpg">supersized burger</a> in the background...Was it a Quarter Waller? Heheheheheh. </em><br /><br /> <a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R7PwPu5aKSI/AAAAAAAABk0/8ohwYfCuu64/s1600-h/wally5.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R7PwPu5aKSI/AAAAAAAABk0/8ohwYfCuu64/s400/wally5.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5166737350601615650" /></a><em>This captured quote from <a href="http://savemeoh.wordpress.com/">SaveMe Oh</a> is worth keeping on our blog-wall..."I will not hang my <a href="http://www.nyceamsterdam.com/what-to-see-in-amsterdam/old-city-centre-pics/rembrandt-museum.jpg">Rembrandt</a> in this museum"....heheheheheheh. What about a kinetic Rembrandt? On a more formalistic note, this pic is a good illustration of how the speech bubbles were occasionally cropped into pieces by the imposing walls...</em><br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R7PwCu5aKRI/AAAAAAAABks/m28lR61pPYc/s1600-h/wally6.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R7PwCu5aKRI/AAAAAAAABks/m28lR61pPYc/s400/wally6.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5166737127263316242" /></a><em>This pic was taken to show off the hamburger one of the many props used to show our pre-occupation with the aesthetics of prop-art...heheheheheheh.</em><br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R7Pv4e5aKQI/AAAAAAAABkk/mk_ebFkLhGs/s1600-h/wally7.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R7Pv4e5aKQI/AAAAAAAABkk/mk_ebFkLhGs/s400/wally7.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5166736951169657090" /></a> <em>This pic was taken to show aspects of the interface. For example, one of the dance moves is there for you in plain view... The fastdance2 move was one designed by <a href="http://www.odysseykunst.com">Odyssey's</a> Curator, <a href="http://odysseyart.ning.com/profile/SLContemporaryArt">Sugar Seville</a> for the purpose of turning the entire audience into a bunch of puritan wallflowers, relatively speaking. This pic was also taken to once again brag about the amazing decor on Locusolus... How often do you get to see a palm tree juxtaposed next to an action carpet (<a href="http://photoshopnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/pollocknumber-8.jpg">Pollock style</a>) close up outside of Las Vegas? I wonder if <a href="http://expandedfield.net/">Gumnosophistai Nurmi</a> was feeling somewhat Californian when he declared this architectural opus as "Radical Architecture!"?</em><br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R7Pvj-5aKPI/AAAAAAAABkc/-Xj5SSl94oM/s1600-h/wally8.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R7Pvj-5aKPI/AAAAAAAABkc/-Xj5SSl94oM/s400/wally8.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5166736598982338802" /></a> <em>How about this for a jazzy wall configuration? Maybe inspired by the sexiness of this wonderwall ensemble, <a href="http://metalive.wordpress.com/agenda/">Ze Moo</a> felt compelled to say: "where are the orgy pose walls?"</em><br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R7PvSu5aKOI/AAAAAAAABkU/Au153x3Fl2Y/s1600-h/wally9.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R7PvSu5aKOI/AAAAAAAABkU/Au153x3Fl2Y/s400/wally9.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5166736302629595362" /></a><em>If you look closely, you can see one of the <a href="http://bloghud.com/id/12564/">ZKM Island</a> Curators, <a href="http://olgawunderlich.blogspot.com/2007/03/art-show-at-fleur-de-lys-olga.html">Aristide Zabelin</a>. Once again, <a href="http://secondfront.blip.tv/">Second Front</a> have made a very aesthetically pleasing configuration. That faceball on the right is reminiscent of <a href="http://plaidnet.greenwichacademy.org/arthistoryslides/slideidgal/MODERNISM/LATE20THCENTURY/late20th56.jpg">Tony Oursler's</a> <a href="http://www.getafirstlife.com">RL</a> work, wouldn't you agree? I think you can see why we like to divide the seemingly open-ended virtual space using walls, right? The <a href="http://avatarorchestra.org">Avatar Orchestra Metaverse's</a> instrument builder, <a href="http://odysseyart.ning.com/profile/BingoOnomatopoeia">Bingo Onomatopoeia</a> had the zeitgeist all figured out when he said, "walls are prototypical in virtual environments".</em><br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R7PvFO5aKNI/AAAAAAAABkM/r-MVdY8I7FE/s1600-h/wally10.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R7PvFO5aKNI/AAAAAAAABkM/r-MVdY8I7FE/s400/wally10.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5166736070701361362" /></a><em>Here is a sneak preview of <a href="http://www.gazirababeli.com">Gazira Babeli's</a> wall canvas and <a href="http://wirxliflimflam.blogspot.com">Wirxli's</a> (me, the blogger) photograph of his/her <a href="http://www.getafirstlife.com">RL</a> clone, <a href="http://obscuresound.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/spector_hair.jpg">Phil Spector</a>.</em><br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R7Pu2u5aKMI/AAAAAAAABkE/CGC2lyM_jUg/s1600-h/wally11.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R7Pu2u5aKMI/AAAAAAAABkE/CGC2lyM_jUg/s400/wally11.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5166735821593258178" /></a><em>"No windows? (They) must be Mac lovers" - <a href="http://alienbeargupte.blogspot.com/2008/01/sl-love-story-by-chantal-harvey.html">Chantal Harvey</a>... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! GOOD ONE, CHANTAL! AWESOME! More great puns, more <a href="http://library.thinkquest.org/27638/great_wall.jpg">Great Walls</a> and more orgiastic floor detail...Even the crowd looks great! So, what were all the griefing complaints all about? It was a perfect consensual moment shared by all, wasn't it?</em><br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R7Pume5aKLI/AAAAAAAABj8/6rPHiY-Y4gU/s1600-h/wally12.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R7Pume5aKLI/AAAAAAAABj8/6rPHiY-Y4gU/s400/wally12.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5166735542420383922" /></a><em>Griefing even at its more artistic would never look as aesthetically pleasing as this...gaze at the interplay between angled walls and shadow <a href="http://www.beatles-unlimited.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/spector.jpg">spectors</a>...er...<a href="http://www.tencentticker.com/images/projectrooftop/spectrefinal.png">Spectres</a>... Doesn't the crowd appear overshadowed by the walls while posturing like wallflowers... All and all, there is another brick in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_Floyd_The_Wall_(film)">ART</a>!</em><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R7PuZ-5aKKI/AAAAAAAABj0/z5nBSiaIG5I/s1600-h/wally13.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R7PuZ-5aKKI/AAAAAAAABj0/z5nBSiaIG5I/s400/wally13.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5166735327672019106" /></a><em>This is yet another shot of the spectre....er...Spector, Curator and token palm tree.</em><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R7PuMO5aKJI/AAAAAAAABjs/9uzxSz42dAM/s1600-h/wally14.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R7PuMO5aKJI/AAAAAAAABjs/9uzxSz42dAM/s400/wally14.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5166735091448817810" /></a> One of the best walls on display had a portruding pile of shopping carts being rammed through the pestle of the brick-laid pelvis...Was this <a href="http://transpiresl.blogspot.com/">Tran Spire's</a> wall? If the <a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ClN5QDmKTLI/Ra_Y0VIpUiI/AAAAAAAAAFo/mXetVz9Six0/s1600-h/Snapshot-ab2_009.bmp">pink flamingoes</a> from the past are any indication, this was likely <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2006/11/blog-post.html">Tran's</a> wall.<br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R7Pt9u5aKII/AAAAAAAABjk/DghVMHUZaAc/s1600-h/wally16.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R7Pt9u5aKII/AAAAAAAABjk/DghVMHUZaAc/s400/wally16.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5166734842340714626" /></a><em>This pic was taken towards the end of the performance. The <a href="http://www.brunobischofberger.com/salewarhol/swphoto.htm">Blue Maos</a> gave us the visual signal that it was about time to wrap up our performance. We did not get the hint though until the <a href="http://directorslounge.net/artists.html">Director's Lounge</a> curator, <a href="http://odysseyart.ning.com/profile/Olga99">Olga Wunderlich</a> in Berlin said, "the DJs are ready to go"...</em><br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R7Ptve5aKHI/AAAAAAAABjc/TAA_dzZP2MM/s1600-h/wally15.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R7Ptve5aKHI/AAAAAAAABjc/TAA_dzZP2MM/s400/wally15.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5166734597527578738" /></a> This pic was taken right at the climax of our performance...There is nothing more sublime than a floral firework explosion of Blue Maos. Even the Cultural Revolution never reached this pinnacle of pixellated perfection.<a href="http://directorslounge.net/DL2008highlights.html"></a>Jeremy O. Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05233583737368132332noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7800162604806417592.post-31632421588747516622008-02-03T15:07:00.000-08:002008-12-11T08:10:56.420-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_lXwxJkl5FTE/R6ZJY5cbRKI/AAAAAAAAACE/FiwexbGSWlM/s1600-h/gaz_001.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_lXwxJkl5FTE/R6ZJY5cbRKI/AAAAAAAAACE/FiwexbGSWlM/s320/gaz_001.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5162894714912588962" /></a>Gaz and fish from "I Want to Eat Fish & Chips", Tate Modern, January 15, 2008<div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_lXwxJkl5FTE/R6ZKKpcbRLI/AAAAAAAAACM/BltabuPNDv4/s320/manincage_002.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5162895569611080882" /> Man in Ze Moo's cage w/Ad Breda<div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div></div><div>Amsterdam/</div><div>Montevideo MediaArt Center, Amsterdam (RL)</div>Patrick Lichtyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15884452729664094542noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7800162604806417592.post-80734123837794577452008-02-03T13:41:00.001-08:002008-02-03T14:41:10.827-08:00Virtual New Year and Second FrontHello, Second Front Fans!<br /><br />Man Michinaga here - They tried to make me go to rehab, I said, "No, no, no..."<br />Let's see if I last as long as Any Winehouse.<br /><br />I: Update -<br />Last Fall was really amazing, Second Front was in tremendous demand, we were globetrotting like mad. That's the source of the Chinese curse, I think "May you get what you wish for." By the end of December, the major performance twice a month had us mirroring great acts like Blondie and Metallica. Whew. Virtual rock stars are not unlike the tangible ones. No use in talking about who, what or how it happened, we took a break over the holidays. <br /><br />It's funny, in the virtual, taking a normal holiday seems like taking this big hiatus. Strange how virtual worlds have a different sense of time than the physical world. But now that the holidays are over, there is a ton of things going on with SF, although many of them are not necessarily under the SF banner. Nothing top secret here.<br /><br />Next week, Great Escape (Scott Kildall) and his partner Victoria Scott are showing their Imaginary Objects as part of the Mixed Realities show in Boston, Lizsolo just got a grant for some machinima, and I'm working on some small pieces and the backlog of machinima pieces from last fall, including Wrath of Kong, Russian Roulette, and more.<br /><br />We are doing a piece on ZKM island for Director's Lounge in Berlin in February, and also another piece in Paris... More on that as they happen. In addition, there will be a small piece in Kansas City in March. <br /><br />II: The Premature Reports of SF's Death, & SL Art as a whole.<br />Yes, there were rumors of our demise after Miami. Not so, but our focus and ways will be 'different' than last year. Imagine performances with 2-3 artists, unannounced interventions, traditional SF performances, as well as possibly fully "re-formed" forms of SF. It was just that it's hard to have a full-time first and second life...<br /><br />Marco Manray and I were talking about the nature of SL art, and we seem to agree that the first era of SL art passed late last year. This is because most of us (Gaz, Marco, the Twangs, myself) have upcoming RL shows of SL work, signalling the bleed-over of SL work as contemporary art. The first Generation, who we called Virtualists, set the foundation for contemporary art in virtual worlds. We are in the second generation now, and it's a real challenge. <br /><br />I believe there will be three main groups - the SLart crowd, who will focus on the SL community as a primary audience, the RL/SL artist who is the contemporary artist using SL as a tool, and the ones who try both. I tend to be inthe first category, but SF as a whole might be between 1 & 2...<br /><br />3: SF in Europe<br />"I Want to Eat Fish & Chips", Tate Modern, January 15, 2008<br />Fau and Man got together in London (the REAL one) and went off to the Tate Modern to answer MTAA's sponsored piece in NYC "I Want to Make Tamales" by Elaine Tin Nyo. (http://www.tinjail.com/over_the_opening/2008/01) We invited friends involved with Furtherfield.org, and went up to the 7th floor, where we commenced to get tamales, and through the Wi-Fi, Gaz Babeli was on Losoculous in SL with many fish on sticks. The good-old-fashioned cod was amazing, as was the Dandelion and Burdock Soda...<br /><br />"Hacking the Cage" with Ze Moo<br />When Man went to Amsterdam to speak (in part) on Second Front at the Video Vortex conference at the Institute for Networked Cultures, he suddenly wound up at Ze Moo's "Couple in the Cage" installation in the Amsterdam district which was also in the Video Vortex gallery installation in Amsterdam. Immediately, Patrick/Man grabbed a keyboard and invaded Columbia College's sim with the Male of the two, Ad Breda, The administrators were confused at Columbia, but witht he understanding this was a Second Front intervention, the alert was cancelled...<div><br /></div><div>However, for the next two weeks, Man, Fau, GE, and Gaz visited the cage and even hacked their way inside to question the safety of the cage itself with anime figures, fire lizards, and robots. Today, though, the cage was sold, and the two inhabitants were set free, now all we have to do is find them.</div><div><br /></div><div>However, afterwards, Gaz and Fau interrogated Man from within a block of solid carbonite... Why this was done is still up to debate, but it seemed good at the moment.</div><div><br /></div><div>Second Wall-ker Art Center at MART Museum</div><div>During the interrogation, an invite came from Pei Twang to come to an italian opening at the MART museum of art in SL. Since we have been working on a piece called the "Second Wall-ker Art Center", everyone donned 20 meter square walls and engaged in some "Dancing About Architecture". Unfortunately, I don't know much Italian, but Gaz tells me that "bannato" is a very nice word... Marco Manray liked the piece very much, and sent me some great images.</div><div><br /></div><div>So, that's about it for now. No mysteries, a few surprises, but some very human avatar-artists are going into the next generation of virtual performance art... </div><div><br /></div><div>I'll try to get more images up soon.</div>Patrick Lichtyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15884452729664094542noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7800162604806417592.post-28831582672706104402007-12-12T01:06:00.000-08:002008-12-11T08:11:01.316-08:00Art Basel Miami Vice!<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R19yFf0LgEI/AAAAAAAABh0/skTS0NXzqQM/s1600-h/miami13.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R19yFf0LgEI/AAAAAAAABh0/skTS0NXzqQM/s400/miami13.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5142954738245664834" /></a> <em>What happened here? Is this an official performance or an excuse to squander <a href="http://www.edgezones.org/">Second Front's official invite at the Zonal Contemporary ArtFair in Miami</a>? Perhaps this performance is all about squandering any conventional expectations for what traditionally constitutes a formal "performance" in favour the more divine cause of partying like a maniac? OK, you can blame the recent influx of virtual snow (cocaine) this wintertime as the primary cause for this downhill <a href="http://www.perpetualartmachine.com/content/view/382/48/lang,en/">Telecultural</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash">snow crash</a>. Here is a pic of what the event "Art Basel Miami Vice" looked like at its peak/climax before everything was snorted, sexxxed and eventually sucked down the drain (and up the group's nose orifaces).<br />Yes, you are not hallucinating - those actually are ostriches in an orgy room with some paranoid ego-crazed cokehead performance artists arming themselves to the teeth while inviting a bunch of their employees and friends to take part in this decadent debaucle! So, how did this all come to pass? Do these actions deserve some avatarial discipline and maybe even some rehab for the holiday season? Ho Ho Ho, time to read more about it below... </em><br /><br />Hey there Boogie Nightlights and Vice Squads with dayglo fannie packs, pastel Armani Suits and two-day stubble!<br /><br />This posting is the beginning of the documentation from our most recent performance in Miami. <br /><br />Here was our official press release written by <a href="http://odysseyart.ning.com/profile/Patlichty">Man Michinaga</a>:<br /><br /><em><strong>Press Release:<br /><br />Second Front's<br /><br />Art Basel Miami Vice<br /><br />Dec. 6, 2007, 3:30 PM PST/SLT<br /><br />In conjunction with<br /><br /><a href="http://www.gosiakoscielak.com/crossmediale_2.html">Gosia Koscielak Gallery</a> @ <a href="http://www.tvguide.com/images/pgimg/miami-vice4.jpg">Miami</a>, <a href="http://rhizome.org/discuss/view/28018">NOW Art Fair</a><br /><br />http://www.gosiakoscielak.com.<br /><a href="http://www.perpetualartmachine.com/content/view/382/48/lang,en/">TELECULTURE</a>: Dreams at the Epicenter @ <a href="http://edgezones.org">Zones Art Fair</a><br /><br />The <a href="http://www.atlanticbasinproject.com">Atlantic Basin Project</a>, <a href="http://www.rca.nf.ca/gallery.html">RCA Gallery</a>., St. John's Newfoundland Canada<br /><br />Press Contact:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.voyd.com/voyd">Patrick Lichty</a>, <a href="https://mail.cofa.unsw.edu.au/pipermail/empyre/2007-August/msg00018.html">Second Front</a><br /><mailto:voyd at voyd.com>voyd at voyd.com<br /><br />Second Front Blog:<br /><http://slfront.blogspot.com/>http://slfront.blogspot.com<br /><br />To commemorate the arrival of <a href="http://www.secondlife.com">Second Life</a> based performance to the <br />shows surrounding Art Basel Miami, SL's first performance art <br />collective, <a href="http://eyelevel.si.edu/2007/03/second_life_mee.html">Second front</a>, are creating an event entitled "Art Basel <br />Miami Vice" This work is in conjunction with the <a href="http://www.perpetualartmachine.com/content/view/382/48/lang,en/">TeleCulture</a> <br />exhibition, curated by <a href="http://jillianmcdonald.net/web.html">Jillian MacDonald</a> and presented by <a href="http://www.leewells.org/">Lee <br />Wells</a>/PAM at <a href="http://edgezones.org">Zones</a>, <a href="http://www.realtimearts.net/article.php?id=8374">Second Front</a> works presented by <a href="http://www.gosiakoscielak.com/about.php">Gosia Koscielak <br />Gallery</a>, as well as live projections at the <a href="http://www.atlanticbasinproject.com/secondfront.html">Atlantic Basin Project</a> <br />and at <a href="http://www.colum.edu/Academics/Interactive_Arts_Media/Featured_Exhibition/Gallery_416.php">The Project Room</a>, <a href="http://www.colum.edu/About_Columbia/index.php">Columbia College Chicago</a>.<br /><br />Scenario:<br /><br />Recent successes have catapulted <a href="http://07.performa-arts.org/artists.php?id=39&detail=true">Second Front</a> to the heights of the <br />virtual art world. And, in coming to <a href="http://www.artbaselmiamibeach.com/go/id/ss/">Art Basel Miami</a>, <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2007/01/ars-virtua-performance-video-and-lythes.html">SF</a> has fallen <br />in with the proper scene of art-world decadence. <a href="http://www.wallpaperbase.com/wallpapers/movie/bladerunner/blade_runner_5.jpg">Hovering limos</a>, <br /><a href="http://www.wallpaperbase.com/wallpapers/movie/miamivice/miami_vice_2.jpg">pastel suits</a>, .45 caliber pistols, seas of virtual coke and sexual <br />peccadillos with flocks of ostriches invade Miami nightlife. Will <a href="http://sl-art-news.blogspot.com/2007/10/second-front-at-gate.html">SF</a> <br />fall in with virtual Colombian drug cartels? Will they even sell a <br />painting? And what about the Ostriches?<br /><br />Art Basel Miami Vice is an expose of the Miami art world underground <br />nightlife with all its drama, danger, and wildlife.<br /><br />Thanks to all of the sponsoring institutions for making the piece <br />possible, and check the <a href="http://www.secondfront.org">Second Front Blog</a> around Christmas for more <br />information...</strong></em><br /><br />So that was how we mythologized this event, here are some more photos to prove to you that the "myths" are in fact, very REAL...<br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R19x5P0LgDI/AAAAAAAABhs/UITECYFLrR8/s1600-h/miami2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R19x5P0LgDI/AAAAAAAABhs/UITECYFLrR8/s400/miami2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5142954527792267314" /></a><em>So, the evening did not exactly begin without a hitch. Perhaps we were trying a little too hard to keep our cool but the fact was, we were begging to be chilled-out even more by our recently minted stash of Second Snow. Already, withdrawal was causing some organizational mix-ups as we were trying to coordinate two limos and two limo drivers. We spent so much of our hard earned <a href="http://secondlife.com/whatis/currency.php">Linden bux</a> on cocaine (before <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2007/10/fau-ferdinand-has-joined-second-front.html">Fau</a> bailed us out, it was costing us L$30 a line...yikes!), we resorted to hiring a chimp named <a href="http://virtuallandownerrights.blogspot.com/2007/09/infohub-loitering-and-greifing-reaching_22.html">Clint</a> and our friend <a href="http://www.slinfo.de/index.php?option=com_comprofiler&task=userProfile&user=16343">Blued Food</a> as the limo drivers (the ones <a href="http://wirxliflimflam.blogspot.com/2007/11/from-recent-archives-vault-1-second.html">Second Front</a> planned to hire bailed out on us at the last minute, perhaps they had their own vices to pursue at all cost or maybe they knew that we would not be able to pay them on time due to our own expensive pursuits...sigh!). So anyways, here is a pic of some of the <a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R0Zpcq6ln6I/AAAAAAAABaI/51inQYDLPRU/s1600-h/SecondFrontLIVE2007.jpg">SF</a> members trying sit properly in one of the limosines... The initial plan was simple: 1) just drive every member in 2 limos down the hill maybe 2 or 3 blocks and then, 2) arrive in <a href="http://www.the-avastar.com">SLebrity</a> style at our Miami Villa designed from pre-fab parts by <a href="http://www.gazirababeli.com">Gazira Babeli</a>...Yeah, that was the "plan" but every coke-head has a half-baked "plan" waiting to hatch, right?</em><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R19xu_0LgCI/AAAAAAAABhk/eiOetsBg8DA/s1600-h/miami3.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R19xu_0LgCI/AAAAAAAABhk/eiOetsBg8DA/s400/miami3.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5142954351698608162" /></a><em>At the time this pic was taken, we managed to fish one of the limos out of the water (we were so high, we thought all limos in <a href="http://www.secondlife.com">SL</a> were amphibious) and also spotted one of our favourite members of the paparazzi, <a href="http://www.myfirstsecondlife.com">Marco Manray</a>. He hitched a ride with us in more ways than one...Usually in <a href="http://www.getafirstlife.com">RL</a>, the <a href="http://www.time.com/time/reports/diana/paparazzi.html">paparazzi chases behind the stars sitting in the limosine</a> but this time, the paparazzi was chasing with us while IN the limo...this kind of logic only makes sense in <a href="http://www.secondlife.com">SL</a> or for those who are too high on nose candy to care.</em><br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R19xkP0LgBI/AAAAAAAABhc/Lix0ev4O3fA/s1600-h/miami4.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R19xkP0LgBI/AAAAAAAABhc/Lix0ev4O3fA/s400/miami4.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5142954167015014418" /></a><em>The black limo may not have been able to swim through water but <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kghia/1569928802/">Blued Food's</a> more luxurious white limo was able to hover (a la the movie <a href="http://www.wallpaperbase.com/wallpapers/movie/bladerunner/blade_runner_5.jpg">Blade Runner</a>) us up to the top of the <a href="http://www.demeures-tropeziennes.com/florida/cnt/00.jpg">Villa</a> for the commencement of the party's Phase One. Since only Blued's limo was working properly, he had to pick us all up in two driving installments since each limo only seated 4 (other than the driver)....Well, at least we were able to "pay him in kind" for his services rendered as you will read in the upcoming...er...lines ahead ;-)</em><br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R19xZf0LgAI/AAAAAAAABhU/3pOgh1oAh64/s1600-h/miami5.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R19xZf0LgAI/AAAAAAAABhU/3pOgh1oAh64/s400/miami5.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5142953982331420674" /></a><em>Within minutes of disembarking the entire <a href="http://virtualartistsalliance.blogspot.com/2007/01/second-front-performance-at-ars-virtua.html">Second Front</a> group and the entourage from the limo and onto the Villa's rooftop patio, the Second Fronters wasted no time and began to line up and er.... "perform" at the altar next to the hot tub and the interactive copy of <a href="http://wirxliflimflam.blogspot.com/2007/06/enos-77-million-paintings-in-second.html">Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies book</a>....SNIFF! SNORT! "ME FIRST!" "NO, ME FIRST!" Does this sound familiar? In the artworld and rockstar world, we call these selfish and greedy attitudes a form of "successful group dynamics" ;-)</em><br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R19xM_0Lf_I/AAAAAAAABhM/mm3mQsN-x5I/s1600-h/miami7.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R19xM_0Lf_I/AAAAAAAABhM/mm3mQsN-x5I/s400/miami7.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5142953767583055858" /></a><em>By the time this pic was taken, most of the group was sober enough to head downstairs to snort some additional lines of coke in the main lobby... It took <a href="http://www.lizsolo.com">Lizsolo Mathilde</a> and <a href="http://wirxliflimflam.blogspot.com">Wirxli Flimflam</a> (yes me, the blogger du jour) quite a few minutes (perhaps hours) afterwards to move our noses off the tray upstairs and proceed to the "2nd course" portion of the powder buffet... Liz and I are used to getting bogged down with lines and lines of something...these days, we call this ritual part of the "grant writing application process".... "OH! WHAT A FEELING!"</em><br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R19w9f0Lf-I/AAAAAAAABhE/rxDeF8kQ3MM/s1600-h/miami8.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R19w9f0Lf-I/AAAAAAAABhE/rxDeF8kQ3MM/s400/miami8.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5142953501295083490" /></a><em>Finally, the party moved to the main lobby downstairs and in hardly any time flat, Second Fronters were flattening out both their nasal cavities and their spines...fortunately, there were couches! It was also at this time that we (including the "paparazzi") began inviting more of our friends to show in order to "further subvert the conventional expectations underlying a conventional performance"...er...some BS like that anyway. What we really wanted was more hot pixel-prims for the orgy and since Second Fronter <a href="http://odysseyart.ning.com/profile/Fauchard410">Fau Ferdinand</a> found some free refillable coke (only available to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very_Important_Person_(person)">VIP</a> <a href="http://www.the-avastar.com">SLebrities</a> like <a href="http://www.slnn.com/article/babelfish/">Second Front</a>), we felt that the more would indeed be the merrier :-)</em><br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R1-W0P0LgKI/AAAAAAAABik/tV5brBXHlL0/s1600-h/miami0.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R1-W0P0LgKI/AAAAAAAABik/tV5brBXHlL0/s400/miami0.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5142995123823149218" /></a> <em>Here is yet another pic of us huddling around the couches... It was great to see our friends <a href="http://www.myspace.com/bibbeoh">Bibbe Oh</a> and <a href="http://odysseyart.ning.com/profile/Chi55555">Chi5 Shenzhou</a> there and the group was also introduced to <a href="http://www.myfirstsecondlife.com">Marco's</a> friend, <a href="http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2007/12/possible-in-sec.html">Bettina Tizzy</a>. A little later in the evening, the Italian Film-maker <a href="http://www.myspace.com/mysecondfilm">Finally Outlander</a> (oh wait, he was there almost at the beginning of the snortfest, actually) and also the Berliner Blogging Artist, <a href="http://olgawunderlich.blogspot.com">Olga Wunderlich</a> joined in to indulge in the action and also.... Yes, the performance artist <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=1822567451&size=o">Bea Box</a> was also there and the rest is probably just a blurry blizzard at this point... </em><br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R19vd_0Lf8I/AAAAAAAABg0/1_IOd_1AQuE/s1600-h/miami12.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/R19vd_0Lf8I/AAAAAAAABg0/1_IOd_1AQuE/s400/miami12.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5142951860617576386" /></a><em>Here is where we see the third and final phase of our "performance". The "performance" culminated in a surreal orgy and fiendish coke-snorting session that left most of us paranoid and ego-maniacal. The bedroom coke orgy was so intense, you could even see if from this zoomed out pic... I think Second Fronter <a href="http://post.thing.net/node/1207">Man Michinaga</a> had the right idea and bailed before <a href="http://rhizome.org/discuss/view/24830">events took their natural turn for the worse</a>. Some <a href="http://secondfront.blip.tv/">Second Front</a> members (like <a href="http://olgawunderlich.blogspot.com/2007/07/great-escape-artist.html">Great Escape</a>, <a href="http://www.simulex.com">AliseIborg Zhaoying</a> and <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2006/11/me-sitting-outside-of-reuters-building.html">Tea Chenille</a>) were super-wise by either staying home sober or simply snorting their own supply at home. Blog readers can rest assured that this performance party very likely seriously burned us out and perhaps Second Front's New Years Resolution for 2008 will be to check into <a href="http://www.secondlifeupdate.com/2007/07/12/drug-rehabilitation-directory/">Rehab</a>...sigh! At the very least, we hope the curators at Miami were forgiving enough to consider booking us in the near future...</em>Jeremy O. Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05233583737368132332noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7800162604806417592.post-53426253608743007672007-11-22T23:23:00.000-08:002008-12-11T08:11:02.181-08:00WRATH OF KONG at PERFORMA 07, NYC<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_67DNriNNHHY/R0EVg3dk1gI/AAAAAAAAAJU/n8Ss2YKcX-s/s1600-h/Kong-Postmortenshot.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_67DNriNNHHY/R0EVg3dk1gI/AAAAAAAAAJU/n8Ss2YKcX-s/s320/Kong-Postmortenshot.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5134408704567072258" /></a><br />Photo by Penny Leong Browne (a.k.a. AliseIborg Zhaoying)<br /><br />On Nov 3, 2007, Second Front performed Wrath of Kong at <a href="http://07.performa-arts.org/artists.php?id=39&detail=true">PERFORMA 07</a>, part of The Second Biennial of New Visual Art Performance (October 27-November 20, 2007)<br /><br />Based on the iconography of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Kong">King Kong</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donkey_Kong">Donkey Kong</a>, Second Front saves the real Princess Peach (<a href="http://patricklichty.com">Man Michinaga s.k.a. Patrick Lichty</a>) and defeats King Kong (<a href="http://gazirababeli.com">Gazira Babeli</a>) in this epic remix that had our avatars ascending up ramps and ladders to the top of the Empire State building where the Great Kong had captured Princess Peach in its grip. Second Front launched their attack by flying biplanes (<a href="http://www.kildall.com">Great Escape a.k.a. Scott Kildall</a> and <a href="http://www.dougjarvis.ca">Tran Spire a.k.a. Doug Jarvis</a>), riding up ramps in a lime-green motorscooter (Tea Chenille a.k.a. Tanya Skuce), wearing flaming barrels (<a href="http://wirxliflimflam.blogspot.com">Wirxli FlimFlam a.k.a. Jeremy Turner</a>) and shooting laser guns (<a href="http://www.simulex.com">AliseIborg Zhaoying a.k.a. Penny Leong Browne</a>) all to the retro sounds of arcade games. Other strategies of assault had Wirxli FlimFlam throwing barrels from ramps and gunfighter <a href="http://odysseyart.ning.com/profile/Fauchard410">Fau Ferdinand a.k.a. Yaels Gilk</a> shooting ammo from atop an attacking biplane flown by Great Escape. Versions of Princess Peach were also deployed to distract the Kong from the real Princess Peach (Man Michinaga) with Tea Chenille as the adorable miniature Cabbage-Patch-like doll, and AliseIborg Zhaoying posing as the pixellated 2D Princess Peach and acting as a love interest decoy by spraying pherenomes at King Kong. Liz Solo sent minute-by-minute reportage to both the audience below and those in (RL) NYC who anxiously awaited news of the rescue of Princess Peach.<br /><br />The pics here show some Second Front performers standing in victory on the body of the defeated Kong.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_67DNriNNHHY/R0EVhHdk1hI/AAAAAAAAAJc/nSh3-KHpifY/s1600-h/Kong-Postmorten%232.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_67DNriNNHHY/R0EVhHdk1hI/AAAAAAAAAJc/nSh3-KHpifY/s320/Kong-Postmorten%232.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5134408708862039570" /></a>Penny Brownehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00851790439664415256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7800162604806417592.post-57511637739432207322007-11-18T20:39:00.000-08:002008-12-11T08:11:02.197-08:00WRATH OF KONG at PERFORMA 07, NYC<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_67DNriNNHHY/R0EVg3dk1gI/AAAAAAAAAJU/n8Ss2YKcX-s/s1600-h/Kong-Postmortenshot.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_67DNriNNHHY/R0EVg3dk1gI/AAAAAAAAAJU/n8Ss2YKcX-s/s320/Kong-Postmortenshot.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5134408704567072258" /></a><br />Photo by Penny Leong Browne (a.k.a. AliseIborg Zhaoying)<br /><br />On Nov 3, 2007, Second Front performed Wrath of Kong at <a href="http://07.performa-arts.org/artists.php?id=39&detail=true">PERFORMA 07</a>, part of The Second Biennial of New Visual Art Performance (October 27-November 20, 2007)<br /><br />Based on the iconography of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Kong">King Kong</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donkey_Kong">Donkey Kong</a>, Second Front saves the real Princess Peach (<a href="http://patricklichty.com">Man Michinaga s.k.a. Patrick Lichty</a>) and defeats King Kong (<a href="http://gazirababeli.com">Gazira Babeli</a>) in this epic remix that had our avatars ascending up ramps and ladders to the top of the Empire State building where the Great Kong had captured Princess Peach in its grip. Second Front launched their attack by flying biplanes (<a href="http://www.kildall.com">Great Escape a.k.a. Scott Kildall</a> and <a href="http://www.dougjarvis.ca">Tran Spire a.k.a. Doug Jarvis</a>), riding up ramps in a lime-green motorscooter (Tea Chenille a.k.a. Tanya Skuce), wearing flaming barrels (<a href="http://wirxliflimflam.blogspot.com">Wirxli FlimFlam a.k.a. Jeremy Turner</a>) and shooting laser guns (<a href="http://www.simulex.com">AliseIborg Zhaoying a.k.a. Penny Leong Browne</a>) all to the retro sounds of arcade games. Other strategies of assault had Wirxli FlimFlam throwing barrels from ramps and gunfighter <a href="http://odysseyart.ning.com/profile/Fauchard410">Fau Ferdinand a.k.a. Yaels Gilk</a> shooting ammo from atop an attacking biplane flown by Great Escape. Versions of Princess Peach were also deployed to distract the Kong from the real Princess Peach (Man Michinaga) with Tea Chenille as the adorable miniature Cabbage-Patch-like doll, and AliseIborg Zhaoying posing as the pixellated 2D Princess Peach and acting as a love interest decoy by spraying pherenomes at King Kong. Liz Solo sent minute-by-minute reportage to both the audience below and those in (RL) NYC who anxiously awaited news of the rescue of Princess Peach.<br /><br />The pics here show some Second Front performers standing in victory on the body of the defeated Kong.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_67DNriNNHHY/R0EVhHdk1hI/AAAAAAAAAJc/nSh3-KHpifY/s1600-h/Kong-Postmorten%232.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_67DNriNNHHY/R0EVhHdk1hI/AAAAAAAAAJc/nSh3-KHpifY/s320/Kong-Postmorten%232.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5134408708862039570" /></a>Penny Brownehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00851790439664415256noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7800162604806417592.post-73070088748475589492007-11-17T23:50:00.000-08:002008-12-11T08:11:04.294-08:00"Theatre of the Subliminal Front" at LIVE 07, Vancouver<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_67DNriNNHHY/Ry7ekoR0OCI/AAAAAAAAAIk/u2_kzDJaPzc/s1600-h/Snapshot_027.bmp"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_67DNriNNHHY/Ry7ekoR0OCI/AAAAAAAAAIk/u2_kzDJaPzc/s320/Snapshot_027.bmp" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5129281746490374178" /></a><br />Photo by AliseIborg Zhaoying (a.k.a. <a href="http://www.simulex.com">Penny Leong Browne</a>)<br /><br />Second Front performs at the <a href="http://www.front.bc.ca/">Western Front</a> in Vancouver as part of the <a href="http://livebiennale.blogspot.com/2007/11/second-live-2007-fri-sat-oct-19-20.html">LIVE 2007 Biennial of Performance Art</a>, October 20, 2007.<br /><br />Inside the "Theatre of the Subliminal Front" Second Front members discover they are both the performers and the subject of a meditative action-painting. To the beats of a gong in a Hermann Nitsch soundtrack, Second Front performers shoot paint cans that splatter paint on impact, exploding colour onto a scene that depicts the performers' avatars as paper cut-outs getting crucified in the "theatre", with Nitsch paintings, crosses and a billboard of the Second Front setting the stage. In the final scene. Second Front performers play dead, releasing their souls from their avatar bodies.<br /><br />Guest-curated by James Morgan of <a href="http://arsvirtua.com/about.php">Ars Virtua</a> and <a href="http://wirxliflimflam.blogspot.com/">Jeremy Turner</a>.<br /><br />Second Front's own video coming soon!<br /><br />In the meantime, check out these photos by Tran Spire (a.k.a. <a href="http://www.dougjarvis.ca/second-front.html">Doug Jarvis</a>)<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_67DNriNNHHY/Ry7fl4R0OEI/AAAAAAAAAI0/L4xwY7CF8cE/s1600-h/SFtheatre1_004.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_67DNriNNHHY/Ry7fl4R0OEI/AAAAAAAAAI0/L4xwY7CF8cE/s320/SFtheatre1_004.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5129282867476838466" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_67DNriNNHHY/Ry7fmIR0OFI/AAAAAAAAAI8/35s4u_gZ9iA/s1600-h/SFtheatre2_004.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_67DNriNNHHY/Ry7fmIR0OFI/AAAAAAAAAI8/35s4u_gZ9iA/s320/SFtheatre2_004.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5129282871771805778" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_67DNriNNHHY/Ry7fmYR0OGI/AAAAAAAAAJE/RcwmXAcRUss/s1600-h/SFtheatre2_009.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_67DNriNNHHY/Ry7fmYR0OGI/AAAAAAAAAJE/RcwmXAcRUss/s320/SFtheatre2_009.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5129282876066773090" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_67DNriNNHHY/Ry7fmoR0OHI/AAAAAAAAAJM/RkWaFCom4s8/s1600-h/SFtheatre2_008.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_67DNriNNHHY/Ry7fmoR0OHI/AAAAAAAAAJM/RkWaFCom4s8/s320/SFtheatre2_008.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5129282880361740402" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_67DNriNNHHY/Ry7fBIR0ODI/AAAAAAAAAIs/Kdn7nVQ7Gaw/s1600-h/SFtheatre1_003.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_67DNriNNHHY/Ry7fBIR0ODI/AAAAAAAAAIs/Kdn7nVQ7Gaw/s320/SFtheatre1_003.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5129282236116645938" /></a>Penny Brownehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00851790439664415256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7800162604806417592.post-58172697159937284342007-10-09T03:37:00.001-07:002007-11-22T23:38:50.159-08:00Second Front performs at "The Gate", Opening for the iMAL in BrusselsOctober 4, 2007 - (20:30 SLT) Interactive Media Art Lab, Brussels, Belgium<br /><br /><embed style="width:400px; height:326px;" id="VideoPlayback" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-7192417943077168383&hl=en-CA" flashvars=""> </embed><br /><br />Video by <a href="http://www.simulex.com">Penny Leong Browne</a> a.k.a. AliseIborg Zhaoying<br /><br />Second Front performed on October 4th to both a live RL audience in Brussels and at Odyssey in SL. The performance happened through a RL and SL portal space, The Gate, featuring a bi-directional video stream on a 4 metre x 4 metre screen projected live for the opening of the iMAL - Interactive Media Art Lab's new space. The show is organized and curated by Yves Bernard, Brussels, Belgium. Second Front performance curated by <a href="http://www.domenicoquaranta.net/">Domenico Quaranta</a>.Penny Brownehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00851790439664415256noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7800162604806417592.post-89994723397800126852007-10-04T13:45:00.000-07:002007-10-04T14:07:05.394-07:00Fau Ferdinand has joined Second Front!<object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/6gSPgkmzmas"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/6gSPgkmzmas" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object><br /><em>If you cannot see this embedded video, click on the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gSPgkmzmas">direct YouTube link here</a>.<br /><br />Here is a sublime performance documentary <a href="http://www.machinima.com">machinima</a> video of <a href="http://odysseyart.ning.com/profile/Fauchard410">Fau Ferdinand</a> in her siren form videographed by <a href="http://www.youtube.com/evolutie">Evo Szuyuan</a>. It is from performances like these, where <a href="http://07.performa-arts.org/artists.php?id=39&detail=true">Second Front</a> felt the strong need to actively recruit her into the group.</em><br /><br /><strong><a href="http://rhizome.org/thread.rhiz?thread=24830&page=1">SECOND FRONT</a> IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE <a href="http://spinstersblog.blogspot.com/2007/06/pgup-artist-fau-ferdinand.html">FAU FERDINAND</a> AS OUR 9TH MEMBER....<br /><br />PLEASE STAY TUNED FOR UPCOMING BLOGS ABOUT HER FIRST PERFORMANCE WITH <a href="http://www.realtimearts.net/article.php?id=8374">SECOND FRONT </a>AT <a href="http://www.imal.org/iMAL_opening/pc/index_en_ie.html">iMAL in BRUSSELS</a>....</strong><br /><br /><a href="http://nwn.blogs.com/photos/uncategorized/fau_ferdinand.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px;" src="http://nwn.blogs.com/photos/uncategorized/fau_ferdinand.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><em>Here is a more humanoid portrait of <a href="http://www.slatenight.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=114&Itemid=2">Fau Ferdinand</a> found on the New World Notes article, <a href="http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2006/07/the_view_from_j.html">The View from Jerusalem</a>.</em>Jeremy O. Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05233583737368132332noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7800162604806417592.post-25686506692754014362007-08-13T16:05:00.001-07:002008-12-11T08:11:04.326-08:00"ZOMBIE ATTACK: 28 AVATARS LATER" VIDEO!TO SEE THE HIGHEST RESOLUTION OF THIS MOVIE, <a href="http://blip.tv/file/337765">CLICK HERE</a> AND THEN VIEW FULLSCREEN...<br /><br /><br /><object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/gByuAUcehrI"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/gByuAUcehrI" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object><em>This is the lower-resolution <a href="http://www.youtube.com">YouTube</a> version. If you cannot see this embedded video, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gByuAUcehrI">click here</a>.</em><br /><br /><embed style="width:400px; height:326px;" id="VideoPlayback" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-6642888471644705656&hl=en-CA" flashvars=""> </embed><em> This video probably looks like a <a href="http://video.google.ca/support/bin/answer.py?answer=59035&topic=11469">blank black screen to you but this is because Google-Video insists on picking the intro still-image as the very first frame</a>...sigh! Anyways, this video is actually at a slightly higher resolution than YouTube. If you cannot see this embedded video, <a href="http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-6642888471644705656">click here</a>.</em><br /><br /><a href="http://secondfront.blip.tv/">TO WATCH THE REST OF SECOND FRONT's VIDEOS AT HIGH RESOLUTION, PLEASE VISIT THE OFFICIAL BLIP TV VIDEO ARCHIVE, CLICK ON THIS SENTENCE.</a><br /><br /><strong>Here is the official info about the video....</strong><br /><br /><a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2007/01/hazardous-second-front-watches-strange.html">Second Front</a> is a pioneering avatar performance art group in the mainstream, virtual world, <a href="http://www.secondlife.com">Second Life</a>. <br /><br />This video is a <a href="http://www.machinima.com">machinima</a> document of a live performance by <a href="http://rhizome.org/thread.rhiz?thread=24830&page=1">Second Front</a>.<br /><br />For this performance, <a href="http://venessap.wordpress.com/2007/05/19/new-frontiers-in-performance-art-a-chat-with-second-front/">Second Front </a>members transformed into zombies and ventured out on a quest to eat and therefore, infect other avatars.<br /><br />Eventually the zombie horde climaxed in an intense suicide pact.<br /><br />This video was edited by <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2007/07/olga-wunderlich-interviews-great-escape.html">Great Escape</a> (<a href="http://www.kildall.com">Scott Kildall</a>) in the style of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Romero">George Romero</a>.<br /><br />The footage was recorded by <a href="http://www.gazirababeli.com">Gazira Babeli</a> and <a href="http://post.thing.net/node/1207">Man Michinaga </a>(<a href="http://www.voyd.com/voyd">Patrick Lichty</a>).<br /><br />The members of <a href="http://secondfront.blip.tv/">Second Front</a> are:<br /><br /><a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2007/03/man-in-interim.html">Man Michinaga</a> (<a href="http://www.badideamachine.com/lichtyfolder/ym.htm">Patrick Lichty</a>)<br /><br /><a href="http://wirxliflimflam.blogspot.com">Wirxli Flimflam</a> (<a href="http://classicblogs.blogspot.com">Jeremy Owen Turner</a>)<br /><br /><a href="http://blip.tv/users/view/AliseIborg">AliseIborg Zhaoying</a> (<a href="http://www.simulex.com">Penny Leong Browne</a>)<br /><br /><a href="http://transpiresl.blogspot.com">Tran Spire</a> (<a href="http://www.dougjarvis.ca">Doug Jarvis</a>)<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DINewYBkXZU ">Lizsolo Mathilde</a> (<a href="http://www.lizsolo.com">Liz Solo</a>)<br /><br /><a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2006/12/welcome-from-great-escape.html">Great Escape</a> (<a href="http://www.kildall.com/artwork/paradiseahead.html">Scott Kildall</a>)<br /><br /><a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2006/11/me-sitting-outside-of-reuters-building.html">Tea Chenille</a> (<a href="http://www.myspace.com/exskuces">Tanya Skuce</a>)<br /> <br /><a href="http://www.gazirababeli.com">Gazira Babeli</a> (classified) <br /><br />Cameo appearances included the <a href="http://www.the-avastar.com">SLebrities</a>: <a href="http://www.slatenight.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=114&Itemid=2">Fau Ferdinand</a>, <a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/RrzzhXFS8qI/AAAAAAAABH4/2oiMKl7eTPE/s1600-h/ge_infects_rubaiyat.jpg">Rubaiyat Shatner</a> (<a href="http://www.arsvirtua.com">Ars Virtua</a> Curator) and <a href="http://olgawunderlich.blogspot.com/">Olga Wunderlich</a> among many others...Jeremy O. Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05233583737368132332noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7800162604806417592.post-39484010245149269482007-08-13T06:19:00.000-07:002007-11-18T23:27:30.495-08:00"28 Avatars Later" - More Zombies!<center> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/scripts/pokkariPlayer.js?ver=2007072801"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/syndication/write_player?skin=js&posts_id=342964&source=3&autoplay=true&file_type=flv&player_width=&player_height="></script><div id="blip_movie_content_342964"><a rel="enclosure" href="http://blip.tv/file/get/AliseIborg-28AvatarsLaterMoreZombies707.flv" onclick="play_blip_movie_342964(); return false;"><img alt="Video thumbnail. Click to play" src="http://blip.tv/file/get/AliseIborg-28AvatarsLaterMoreZombies707.flv.jpg" title="Click to play" border="0" /></a><br /><a rel="enclosure" href="http://blip.tv/file/get/AliseIborg-28AvatarsLaterMoreZombies707.flv" onclick="play_blip_movie_342964(); return false;">Click To Play</a><br />Here's some close-up footage of <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2007/04/second-front-featured-in-spark-magazine.html">Second Front</a> zombies in action.<br />Video footage by AliseIborg Zhaoying a.k.a. <a href="http://www.simulex.com">Penny Leong Browne</a>.<br /></div> </center>Penny Brownehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00851790439664415256noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7800162604806417592.post-63622778439056082782007-08-13T05:18:00.001-07:002007-08-13T13:26:04.877-07:00"28 Avatars Later " - More Raw Footage!<center> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/scripts/pokkariPlayer.js?ver=2007072801"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/syndication/write_player?skin=js&posts_id=342929&source=3&autoplay=true&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;file_type=flv&player_width=&player_height="></script><div id="blip_movie_content_342929"><a rel="enclosure" href="http://blip.tv/file/get/AliseIborg-28AvatarsLaterMoreRawFootage554.mov" onclick="play_blip_movie_342929(); return false;"><img alt="Video thumbnail. Click to play" src="http://blip.tv/file/get/AliseIborg-28AvatarsLaterMoreRawFootage554.mov.jpg" title="Click to play" border="0" /></a><br /><a rel="enclosure" href="http://blip.tv/file/get/AliseIborg-28AvatarsLaterMoreRawFootage554.mov" onclick="play_blip_movie_342929(); return false;">Click To Play</a><br /><br /><a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2007/04/second-front-featured-in-spark-magazine.html">Second Front</a> recently transformed themselves into zombies. Here's footage from "28 Avatars Later" where Second Front and other infected avatars joined together in the final act at Rausch's Combat Sim in a phantasmagorical dance of the undead. Video footage by AliseIborg Zhaoying a.k.a. <a href="http://www.simulex.com">Penny Leong Browne</a>.<br /><br /></div> </center>Penny Brownehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00851790439664415256noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7800162604806417592.post-30808825846621369402007-08-13T04:37:00.000-07:002007-08-13T13:25:45.113-07:00"28 Avatars Later " - Raw Footage from Zombie Garden<center> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/scripts/pokkariPlayer.js?ver=2007072801"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/syndication/write_player?skin=js&posts_id=342876&source=3&autoplay=true&amp;amp;file_type=flv&player_width=&player_height="></script><div id="blip_movie_content_342876"><a rel="enclosure" href="http://blip.tv/file/get/AliseIborg-28AvatarsLaterRawFootageFromZombieGarden846.flv" onclick="play_blip_movie_342876(); return false;"><img alt="Video thumbnail. Click to play" src="http://blip.tv/file/get/AliseIborg-28AvatarsLaterRawFootageFromZombieGarden846.flv.jpg" title="Click to play" border="0" /></a><br /><a rel="enclosure" href="http://blip.tv/file/get/AliseIborg-28AvatarsLaterRawFootageFromZombieGarden846.flv" onclick="play_blip_movie_342876(); return false;">Click To Play</a><br /><br />Here's some excerpted raw footage of <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2007/04/second-front-featured-in-spark-magazine.html">Second Front</a> zombies, biting and infecting other avatars at Zombie Garden. Video footage by AliseIborg Zhaoying a.k.a. <a href="http://www.simulex.com">Penny Leong Browne</a>.<br /><br /></div> </center>Penny Brownehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00851790439664415256noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7800162604806417592.post-33180099307796080962007-08-10T16:02:00.000-07:002008-12-11T08:11:18.518-08:00ZOMBIE ATTACK! 28 AVATARS LATER...<strong>SOME BRAINPOWER REQUIRED: <a href="http://www.teatar.hr/vijesti/crossover/316">SECOND FRONT</a> GAINS NEW UNDEAD ALLIES WITHIN SECONDS OF ASCENDING THEIR GRAVES... </strong><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/Rrz2qHFS87I/AAAAAAAABKA/D4UVRS8o7dE/s1600-h/assemblingatgraveyard.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/Rrz2qHFS87I/AAAAAAAABKA/D4UVRS8o7dE/s400/assemblingatgraveyard.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5097220081592759218" /></a> <strong>Photo by <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2007/07/olga-wunderlich-interviews-great-escape.html">Great Escape</a></strong>. <em>This pic illustrated well the disciplined nature of <a href="http://www.realtimearts.net/article.php?id=8374">Second Front</a>. Even with only 5 of us there at the very beginning, we managed to rid ourselves of any healthy flesh and got straight down to the nitty gritty task of infecting new zombies to act as SF cameo-appearances....</em><br /><br />***UPDATE FROM THE NEAR FUTURE... <br /><a href="http://olgawunderlich.blogspot.com/2007/08/zombie-attack-28-avatars-later-sf.html">OLGA WUNDERLICH HAS BLOGGED THIS PERFORMANCE!</a>***<br /><br />Hey there splEEn-spOOks, thriller-seekers and other blood guzzling hobbyists,<br /><br />About a week ago, <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2007/01/hazardous-second-front-watches-strange.html">Second Front</a> drank some bad blood and turned into zombies en masse.<br /><br />Always suckers for more popularity, the motley crew of avatar performance artists decided to turn their particular crisis into an opportunity and seize the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_the_Dead_(film)">Day of the Dead</a>...<br /><br />Consider this blog posting to be kind of like a photo-essay - you know, the kind that <a href="http://www.time.com">TIME</a> magazine might publish or something ;-) <br /><br />Ok, no point in describing everything in excruciating theoretical detail, here are some more pix from our performance called "Zombie Attack! 28 Avatars Later"... <br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/Rrz2gnFS86I/AAAAAAAABJ4/ur1w8tJ3_mU/s1600-h/graveyard_scene.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/Rrz2gnFS86I/AAAAAAAABJ4/ur1w8tJ3_mU/s400/graveyard_scene.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5097219918384001954" /></a> <strong>Photo by <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2007/07/olga-wunderlich-interviews-great-escape.html">Great Escape</a></strong>. <em> Without a moment to waste, <a href="http://www.myfirstsecondlife.com/second-front/index.htm">Second Front</a> congregates at the "Stuff on Pikes" graveyard and gradually chomps the masses of flesh-filled nOObs in their group pursuit of the Quest for Brains...</em><br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/Rrz2UXFS85I/AAAAAAAABJw/fPw-B_cRTJw/s1600-h/ge_wir_graveyard.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/Rrz2UXFS85I/AAAAAAAABJw/fPw-B_cRTJw/s400/ge_wir_graveyard.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5097219707930604434" /></a> <strong>Photo by <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2007/07/olga-wunderlich-interviews-great-escape.html">Great Escape</a></strong>. <em>Left-Right: <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2006/12/welcome-from-great-escape.html">Great Escape</a>, Macky Oh (an infected nun with a groovy sk8board), <a href="http://olgawunderlich.blogspot.com/">Olga Wunderlich </a>(stunned like a deer caught in headlights and waiting to be infected), <a href="http://www.gazirababeli.com">Gazira Babeli</a> (background) and <a href="http://wirxliflimflam.blogspot.com">Wirxli Flimflam</a>.</em><br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/Rrz14XFS82I/AAAAAAAABJY/Vx0S9genZFA/s1600-h/ge_olga_macky.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/Rrz14XFS82I/AAAAAAAABJY/Vx0S9genZFA/s400/ge_olga_macky.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5097219226894267234" /></a> <strong>Photo by <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2007/07/olga-wunderlich-interviews-great-escape.html">Great Escape</a></strong>. <em>It looks like <a href="http://olgawunderlich.blogspot.com/2007/08/zombie-attack-28-avatars-later-sf.html">Olga</a> is pretending to hang around <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2006/12/welcome-from-great-escape.html">Great Escape</a> and Macky Oh as if nothing unusual has happened. She was probably hoping that no one would take notice that her flesh was full-figured and her brain was still intact...ooops! <a href="http://www.kildall.com/artwork/paradiseahead.html">Great Escape</a> (the zombie with the most brain cells still in his head), saw opportunity knocking! ;-)</em><br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/Rrz2J3FS84I/AAAAAAAABJo/0_Ke2-G80pw/s1600-h/ge_attacks_olga.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/Rrz2J3FS84I/AAAAAAAABJo/0_Ke2-G80pw/s400/ge_attacks_olga.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5097219527541977986" /></a> <strong>Photo by <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2007/07/olga-wunderlich-interviews-great-escape.html">Great Escape</a></strong>. <em><a href="http://olgawunderlich.blogspot.com/2007/08/zombie-attack-28-avatars-later-sf.html">Olga</a> is the very first victim of the evening. <a href="http://www.kildall.com/artwork/paradiseahead.html">Great Escape</a> has the pleasure of getting first dibs on her supple pixel-flesh. Perhaps this is <a href="http://secondliferesearch.blogspot.com/2007/07/collaborative-art-performances-in.html">Great Escape's</a> form of gratitude for being <a href="http://olgawunderlich.blogspot.com/2007/07/great-escape-artist.html">interviewed by Olga a few weeks ago</a>...heheheheh!</em><br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/Rrz2BHFS83I/AAAAAAAABJg/whQW_jBBdA0/s1600-h/ge_zombifies_olga.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/Rrz2BHFS83I/AAAAAAAABJg/whQW_jBBdA0/s400/ge_zombifies_olga.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5097219377218122610" /></a><strong>Photo by <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2007/07/olga-wunderlich-interviews-great-escape.html">Great Escape</a></strong>. <em>The infection works! <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/09353039152442014308">Olga</a> is <a href="http://eyelevel.si.edu/2007/03/second_life_mee.html">Second Front's</a> very first cameo zombie!</em><br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/Rrz1x3FS81I/AAAAAAAABJQ/OiWCLPbmN18/s1600-h/wir_alise.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/Rrz1x3FS81I/AAAAAAAABJQ/OiWCLPbmN18/s400/wir_alise.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5097219115225117522" /></a> <strong>Photo by <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2007/07/olga-wunderlich-interviews-great-escape.html">Great Escape</a></strong>. <em>Here is a revealing pic of <a href="http://www.simulex.com">AliseIborg Zhaoying</a>, <a href="http://wirxliflimflam.blogspot.com">Wirxli Flimflam</a> and Macky Oh.</em><br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/Rrz1qnFS80I/AAAAAAAABJI/zq54Dhglucw/s1600-h/zombie_liz.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/Rrz1qnFS80I/AAAAAAAABJI/zq54Dhglucw/s400/zombie_liz.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5097218990671065922" /></a> <strong>Photo by <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2007/07/olga-wunderlich-interviews-great-escape.html">Great Escape</a></strong>. <em>Here is a close-up of <a href="http://www.lizsolo.com">Lizsolo Mathilde</a> as a zombie.</em><br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/Rrz1gnFS8zI/AAAAAAAABJA/uI6Dji57sas/s1600-h/graveyard_onlookers.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/Rrz1gnFS8zI/AAAAAAAABJA/uI6Dji57sas/s400/graveyard_onlookers.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5097218818872374066" /></a> <strong>Photo by <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2007/07/olga-wunderlich-interviews-great-escape.html">Great Escape</a></strong>. <em>This pic was taken the minute Man <a href="http://post.thing.net/node/1207">Michinaga</a> joined us. This moment was important as Man Michinaga's Aons-old arrival signaled the rest of us to officially commence <a href="http://secondfront.blip.tv/">Second Front's</a> zany zombiefest.</em><br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/Rrz1VXFS8yI/AAAAAAAABI4/19nTCjVe5Uo/s1600-h/graveyard_man_joins.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/Rrz1VXFS8yI/AAAAAAAABI4/19nTCjVe5Uo/s400/graveyard_man_joins.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5097218625598845730" /></a> <strong>Photo by <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2007/07/olga-wunderlich-interviews-great-escape.html">Great Escape</a></strong>. <em><a href="http://rhizome.org/thread.rhiz?thread=24830&page=1">Second Front</a> members shown from left-right: <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2007/03/man-in-interim.html">Man Michinaga</a>, <a href="wirxliflimflam.blogspot.com">Wirxli Flimflam</a>, <a href="http://transpiresl.blogspot.com">Tran Spire</a> and <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2006/12/welcome-from-great-escape.html">Great Escape</a>.</em><br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/Rrz1K3FS8xI/AAAAAAAABIw/nM7iMPcVSH0/s1600-h/ge_infects.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/Rrz1K3FS8xI/AAAAAAAABIw/nM7iMPcVSH0/s400/ge_infects.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5097218445210219282" /></a> <strong>Photo by <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2007/07/olga-wunderlich-interviews-great-escape.html">Great Escape</a></strong>. <em><a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2006/12/welcome-from-great-escape.html">Great Escape's</a> next victim apparently ownes the Graveyard (according to "reliable sources") so it is likely that she was eager to be victimized as soon as possible.</em><br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/Rrz0-XFS8wI/AAAAAAAABIo/IZY2Uax9RFE/s1600-h/more_graveyard.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/Rrz0-XFS8wI/AAAAAAAABIo/IZY2Uax9RFE/s400/more_graveyard.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5097218230461854466" /></a> <strong>Photo by <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2007/07/olga-wunderlich-interviews-great-escape.html">Great Escape</a></strong>. <em>Ok, this pic shows that the "chaos" of our zombie dance was in fact perfectly choreographed. It would not be suprising if <a href="http://www.sluniverse.com/language/2004/12/chat-history-interview-ulrika-zugzwang.html">Ulrika Zugzwang</a> would be pleased with our <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=memW5zjGyFs ">thrilling coordination</a>.<br />Left-right: <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2006/12/welcome-from-great-escape.html">Great Escape</a>, <a href="http://transpiresl.blogspot.com">Tran Spire</a>, <a href="http://wirxliflimflam.blogspot.com">Wirxli Flimflam</a>, <a href="http://www.lizsolo.com">Liz Solo</a> and some cameo zombie with some fancy blue shoes.</em><br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/Rrz0zXFS8vI/AAAAAAAABIg/NgpLK8ewJvA/s1600-h/more_horde.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/Rrz0zXFS8vI/AAAAAAAABIg/NgpLK8ewJvA/s400/more_horde.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5097218041483293426" /></a> <strong>Photo by <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2007/07/olga-wunderlich-interviews-great-escape.html">Great Escape</a></strong>. <em>This might look like a scene straight out of an <a href="video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8989943898411699385">Ulrika Zugzwang machinima movie</a> but actually, this pic shows Second Front getting enough blood and guts to channel the legion of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_enemies_in_Doom#Cacodemon">cacodemons from the Doom Trilogy</a>.. You might know the Ancient saying, "We are Legion for we are plenty".</em><br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/Rrz0nnFS8uI/AAAAAAAABIY/ig7DNnD_2B0/s1600-h/brains.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/Rrz0nnFS8uI/AAAAAAAABIY/ig7DNnD_2B0/s400/brains.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5097217839619830498" /></a> <strong>Photo by <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2007/07/olga-wunderlich-interviews-great-escape.html">Great Escape</a></strong>. <em> BRAAAAYYYNNNZZZ! WE NEEEED MOOOREE NOOOOOB BRAAAYYYYNZZZZ! The zombies begin to look desperate so Second Front sends forth a scavenger scout (<a href="http://wirxliflimflam.blogspot.com">Wirxli</a>) to hunt down more nOObs in other designated land-plots.</em><br /><br /><strong>AND YET, <a href="http://venessap.wordpress.com/2007/05/19/new-frontiers-in-performance-art-a-chat-with-second-front/">SECOND FRONT's</a> HORDE BORES QUICKLY AND THEY STILL NEED MORE FRESH BRAINS...</strong><br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/Rrz0hnFS8tI/AAAAAAAABIQ/ZcVuwIqxmZM/s1600-h/zombie_horde.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/Rrz0hnFS8tI/AAAAAAAABIQ/ZcVuwIqxmZM/s400/zombie_horde.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5097217736540615378" /></a> <strong>Photo by <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2007/07/olga-wunderlich-interviews-great-escape.html">Great Escape</a></strong>. <em><a href="http://www.gazirababeli.com">Gazira Babeli</a> and <a href="http://www.simulex.com">AliseIborg Zhaoying</a> have gleeful fun coordinating the feasting activities of the zombie horde.</em><br /><br /><strong>CURATE OR BE CUREATEN: <a href="http://www.arsvirtua.com">ARS VIRTUA's</a> <a href="http://fpsl.files.wordpress.com/2007/04/jo-rub-tidy.jpg">CURATOR</a> GETS INFECTED BY SECOND FRONT!</strong><br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/RrzzhXFS8qI/AAAAAAAABH4/2oiMKl7eTPE/s1600-h/ge_infects_rubaiyat.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/RrzzhXFS8qI/AAAAAAAABH4/2oiMKl7eTPE/s400/ge_infects_rubaiyat.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5097216632734020258" /></a> <strong>Photo by <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2007/07/olga-wunderlich-interviews-great-escape.html">Great Escape</a></strong>. <em>The Unholy ritual is complete! Ars Virtua's curator <a href="http://mathmos.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/dorfman_001.jpg">Rubaiyat Shatner</a> has been successfully infected by <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2006/12/welcome-from-great-escape.html">Great Escape</a>. From this point onward, Institutions and Performance Artists will forever be bonded in blood (and brains, of course)!</em><br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/RrzzT3FS8pI/AAAAAAAABHw/O0hYZyFxQ5I/s1600-h/winged_zombie.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/RrzzT3FS8pI/AAAAAAAABHw/O0hYZyFxQ5I/s400/winged_zombie.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5097216400805786258" /></a> <strong>Photo by <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2007/07/olga-wunderlich-interviews-great-escape.html">Great Escape</a></strong>. <em>We think this winged zombie used to be <a href="http://olgawunderlich.blogspot.com/">Olga Wunderlich</a>, but now we are not so certain.... I think we missed the missing link in this part of her evolution towards full-blown zombiehood...sigh!</em><br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/RrzzI3FS8oI/AAAAAAAABHo/aR5gbtihheg/s1600-h/in_basement.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/RrzzI3FS8oI/AAAAAAAABHo/aR5gbtihheg/s400/in_basement.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5097216211827225218" /></a> <strong>Photo by <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2007/07/olga-wunderlich-interviews-great-escape.html">Great Escape</a></strong>. <em>Finally, we found a zombie training basement where we could test out our newfound brainlessness. </em><br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/Rrzy-XFS8nI/AAAAAAAABHg/Ml3FtgtHJ90/s1600-h/basement_horde.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/Rrzy-XFS8nI/AAAAAAAABHg/Ml3FtgtHJ90/s400/basement_horde.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5097216031438598770" /></a> <strong>Photo by <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2007/07/olga-wunderlich-interviews-great-escape.html">Great Escape</a></strong>. <em>Here we are practicing our devious dance moves for MUNCHFEST 2007.</em><br /><br /><strong>WELCOME TO THE <a href="http://secondlife.com/events/event.php?id=765279&date=1186448400">DEVIL's PLAYGROUND</a>!</strong><br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/Rrz0JXFS8sI/AAAAAAAABII/JZ3uGbkyBFY/s1600-h/devils_playground.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/Rrz0JXFS8sI/AAAAAAAABII/JZ3uGbkyBFY/s400/devils_playground.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5097217319928787650" /></a> <strong>Photo by <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2007/07/olga-wunderlich-interviews-great-escape.html">Great Escape</a></strong>. <em>At this point, we had teleported to The <a href="http://secondlife.com/events/event.php?id=765279&date=1186448400">Devil's Playground</a> where we were able to locate more brains and innards for our cause...</em><br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/Rrzz-nFS8rI/AAAAAAAABIA/ssVCO-uZjfs/s1600-h/more_infection_at_devils.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/Rrzz-nFS8rI/AAAAAAAABIA/ssVCO-uZjfs/s400/more_infection_at_devils.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5097217135245193906" /></a> <strong>Photo by <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2007/07/olga-wunderlich-interviews-great-escape.html">Great Escape</a></strong>. <em>Here are some cameo-zombies having a field-day with each other in the <a href="http://secondlife.com/events/event.php?id=765279&date=1186448400">Devil's Playground</a>. <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2006/12/welcome-from-great-escape.html">Great Escape</a> is doing a great job of micro-management here. Who says zombies are incapable of efficiency? ;-)</em><br /><br /><strong>BLOOD RED-BERETS: WOULD YOU LIKE ANY <a href="http://www.c64.com/games/screenshots/c/chiller_01.gif">THRILLER</a> FRIES WITH THAT? <br />QUENCHING BRAINTHIRST AT THE <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2007/04/tower-of-babelfish-video.html">EIFFEL TOWER IN NEW-PARIS</a>...</strong><br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/RrzycHFS8mI/AAAAAAAABHY/hkHSq0-MCfc/s1600-h/eiffel_tower_3.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/RrzycHFS8mI/AAAAAAAABHY/hkHSq0-MCfc/s400/eiffel_tower_3.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5097215443028079202" /></a> <strong>Photo by <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2007/07/olga-wunderlich-interviews-great-escape.html">Great Escape</a></strong>. <em>At this stage in the "game", we had entered <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2007/04/translations-tower-of-babelfish.html">New Paris in order to find the Eiffel Tower</a>. The French are always sitting ducks waiting to be consumed by Performance Art! In the foreground from left-right are the <a href="http://thinkd2c.blogspot.com/2007/02/second-life-second-front-and-strange.html">Second Front</a> members: <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2006/12/welcome-from-great-escape.html">Great Escape</a> and <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2006/11/me-sitting-outside-of-reuters-building.html">Tea Chenille</a>. Yes, most of the pictures feature <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2006/12/welcome-from-great-escape.html">Great Escape</a> this time and this is because he was in charge of taking the photos...lol!</em><br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/RrzyRHFS8lI/AAAAAAAABHQ/WAu7Jo0AaQk/s1600-h/eiffel_tower_1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/RrzyRHFS8lI/AAAAAAAABHQ/WAu7Jo0AaQk/s400/eiffel_tower_1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5097215254049518162" /></a> <strong>Photo by <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2007/07/olga-wunderlich-interviews-great-escape.html">Great Escape</a></strong>. <em>If you look above, you will see that our friend <a href="http://spinstersblog.blogspot.com/2007/06/pgup-artist-fau-ferdinand.html">Fau Ferdinand</a> is one of the poor infected souls forced to make an appearance as a cameo-zombie for <a href="http://kupikozu.blogspot.com/2007/07/blog-post_04.html">Second Front</a>. If you look a little more closely, you will also noticed that we use teddy bears to lure in our prey...Mwua-hahahahahaha! </em><br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/RrzyHXFS8kI/AAAAAAAABHI/TyduW48jV6c/s1600-h/eiffel_tower_2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/RrzyHXFS8kI/AAAAAAAABHI/TyduW48jV6c/s400/eiffel_tower_2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5097215086545793602" /></a> <strong>Photo by <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2007/07/olga-wunderlich-interviews-great-escape.html">Great Escape</a></strong>. <em>Here is another pic showing <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2007/07/olga-wunderlich-interviews-great-escape.html">Great Escape</a> faffing around with our zombie cameo-fodder.</em><br /><br /><strong>THE CARNIVAL OF BRAINLESS CARNAGE CONTINUES IN THE LOCAL nOOb SANDBOX...</strong><br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/RrzxnXFS8jI/AAAAAAAABHA/HtkzYeFcaKw/s1600-h/ge_liz.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/RrzxnXFS8jI/AAAAAAAABHA/HtkzYeFcaKw/s400/ge_liz.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5097214536789979698" /></a> <strong>Photo by <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2007/07/olga-wunderlich-interviews-great-escape.html">Great Escape</a></strong>. <em>Here we have Second Front members <a href="http://www.lizsolo.com">Liz Solo</a> and (yes, again) <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2007/07/olga-wunderlich-interviews-great-escape.html">Great Escape</a> playing in the sandbox when they should be on the hunt looking for fresh nOOb blOOd. At least they were dancing the authentic zombie dance since they were adhering to the measured grid-lines of the local venue. Context is everything when it comes to <a href="http://www.theartnewspaper.com/article01.asp?id=678">Second Front</a> performances, even when one has to resort to <a href="http://dnwallace.com/images/blog/sllinedancingsml.jpg">line-dancing</a>!</em> <br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/RrzxhnFS8iI/AAAAAAAABG4/PKPKVw1EfqY/s1600-h/ge_attacks_again.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/RrzxhnFS8iI/AAAAAAAABG4/PKPKVw1EfqY/s400/ge_attacks_again.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5097214438005731874" /></a> <strong>Photo by <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2007/07/olga-wunderlich-interviews-great-escape.html">Great Escape</a></strong>. <em>Either it is photographic propaganda or <a href="http://www.kildall.com/artwork/paradiseahead.html">Great Escape</a> appears to be the most successful with hunting down fresh meat! Perhaps, his <a href="http://www.strangefates.com/SLpics/SLstageangle3.jpg">grid-dance</a> mentioned above was a way to focus his leftover virility and brainpower in a calculated effort to seduce more avatar <a href="http://www.columbia.edu/itc/tc/cstudies/imagesequence/videodrome_7/videodrome_7_9.jpg">bodies</a>? <a href="http://www.cyberpunkreview.com/images/videodrome05.jpg">Long Live The nOOb Flesh</a>!</em><br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/RrzxYXFS8hI/AAAAAAAABGw/rlIwEwwJVhQ/s1600-h/zombies_escape.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/RrzxYXFS8hI/AAAAAAAABGw/rlIwEwwJVhQ/s400/zombies_escape.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5097214279091941906" /></a> <strong>Photo by <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2007/07/olga-wunderlich-interviews-great-escape.html">Great Escape</a></strong>. <em>Some of the nOObs in the sandbox were genuinely afraid of us and tried to flee from this performance artist epidemic.</em> <br /><br /><strong>IRISH (S)CREAM, ANYONE? THE CARNAGE CLIMAXES IN A LAGGY DUBLIN NITECLUB...</strong><br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/Rrzw_nFS8gI/AAAAAAAABGo/4LnKerzAFYs/s1600-h/irish_bar.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/Rrzw_nFS8gI/AAAAAAAABGo/4LnKerzAFYs/s400/irish_bar.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5097213853890179586" /></a> <strong>Photo by <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2007/07/olga-wunderlich-interviews-great-escape.html">Great Escape</a></strong>. <em>The Monster Mash! Here we are in some packed (and therefore, laggy) bar in Dublin full of drunken Irish rowdies who were really cheery and pleasant (what's new?)...in fact, some of them were even brave enough to get close to our <a href="http://truemetal.org/metalwallpaper/images/leprosy.jpg">infectious (s)pores</a>!</em><br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/Rrzw23FS8fI/AAAAAAAABGg/fzERubG7pCo/s1600-h/irish_bar_2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/Rrzw23FS8fI/AAAAAAAABGg/fzERubG7pCo/s400/irish_bar_2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5097213703566324210" /></a> <strong>Photo by <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2007/07/olga-wunderlich-interviews-great-escape.html">Great Escape</a></strong>. <em>As you can see, there was plenty of tantalizing Irish nOObflesh to be had...YUMMY TREATS! MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM....BRAAAAAAYNNNNNZ! NEEEEEEEEEEEEEDDDD BRRAAAAYYYYNZZZ!</em><br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/Rrzwu3FS8eI/AAAAAAAABGY/VPFuDoGtVFo/s1600-h/irish_bar_3.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/Rrzwu3FS8eI/AAAAAAAABGY/VPFuDoGtVFo/s400/irish_bar_3.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5097213566127370722" /></a> <strong>Photo by <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2007/07/olga-wunderlich-interviews-great-escape.html">Great Escape</a></strong>. <em>Some of the more well-accomplished table-dancers managed to avoid our infectious grooves entirely and stick to their own non-sticky shimmy. I guess in a way, anytime after midnite is fair game to pretend you are undead!</em><br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/RrzwjHFS8dI/AAAAAAAABGQ/29JfrLZ_WnI/s1600-h/another_horde.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/RrzwjHFS8dI/AAAAAAAABGQ/29JfrLZ_WnI/s400/another_horde.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5097213364263907794" /></a> <strong>Photo by <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2007/07/olga-wunderlich-interviews-great-escape.html">Great Escape</a></strong>. <em>Here is another view of the Irish dancefloor... <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday_Bloody_Sunday_(song)">Zombie Bloody Zombie</a>! <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Will_Follow">I will follow</a>!</em><br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/RrzwYnFS8cI/AAAAAAAABGI/NU7k9pqWMXo/s1600-h/arial_carnage.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/RrzwYnFS8cI/AAAAAAAABGI/NU7k9pqWMXo/s400/arial_carnage.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5097213183875281346" /></a> <strong>Photo by <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2007/07/olga-wunderlich-interviews-great-escape.html">Great Escape</a></strong>. <em>Here is a great aerial view of the Irish party bash!</em><br /><br /><strong>SUICIDE-SAUCE: ENDPARTY IN <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2007/03/martyr-sauce-performance-video.html">RAUSCH's COMBAT SIM</a>...</strong><br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/Rrzv5nFS8bI/AAAAAAAABGA/-w5BsO4LD1M/s1600-h/zombie_rausch.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/Rrzv5nFS8bI/AAAAAAAABGA/-w5BsO4LD1M/s400/zombie_rausch.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5097212651299336626" /></a> <strong>Photo by <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2007/07/olga-wunderlich-interviews-great-escape.html">Great Escape</a></strong>. <em>Finally, we decided to re-visit our old "haunt" (pardon the pun) - the Rausch combat sim where we once performed our <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2007/03/martyr-sauce-wirxlis-perspective.html">Martyr Sauce intervention</a> many (full) moons ago...</em><br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/RrzvunFS8aI/AAAAAAAABF4/kyjQxkTjtJo/s1600-h/party_at_end.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/RrzvunFS8aI/AAAAAAAABF4/kyjQxkTjtJo/s400/party_at_end.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5097212462320775586" /></a> <strong>Photo by <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2007/07/olga-wunderlich-interviews-great-escape.html">Great Escape</a></strong>. <em>Left-Right: <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2006/11/me-sitting-outside-of-reuters-building.html">Tea Chenille</a>, <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2006/12/welcome-from-great-escape.html">Great Escape</a>, <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2007/02/after-crash-man-again.html">Man Michinaga</a>, <a href="http://www.lizsolo.com">Liz Solo</a> and <a href="http://wirxliflimflam.blogspot.com">Wirxli Flimflam</a>.... MMMMMM! Some freshly rezzed brains just begging to be eaten in the <a href="http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/iraq/baghdad-green-zone.htm">safe zone of the combat sandbox</a>! Hmmm..which side to eat first, the left side or the right of the brain? Oh well, all this sort of theoretical thinking was too lively for us so we figured it was best just dance our hearts out (in some cases, literally).</em><br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/Rrzvj3FS8ZI/AAAAAAAABFw/ncoD3U7csAo/s1600-h/sandbox.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/Rrzvj3FS8ZI/AAAAAAAABFw/ncoD3U7csAo/s400/sandbox.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5097212277637181842" /></a> <strong>Photo by <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2007/07/olga-wunderlich-interviews-great-escape.html">Great Escape</a></strong>. <em>Here we are again dancing further and further into conceptual Goth oblivion...Hmmm...I guess we had too many brains for our bite, eh? Sigh!</em><br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/RrzvbnFS8YI/AAAAAAAABFo/vTBECwGl5rs/s1600-h/arial_shot_at_end.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/RrzvbnFS8YI/AAAAAAAABFo/vTBECwGl5rs/s400/arial_shot_at_end.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5097212135903261058" /></a> <strong>Photo by <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2007/07/olga-wunderlich-interviews-great-escape.html">Great Escape</a></strong>. <em>Here is a good aerial pic showing you the kind of mayhem-sauce we were dipping into for dinner. We had a surplus of brains that day which might explain the epic length of our performance.</em><br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/RrzvUHFS8XI/AAAAAAAABFg/DGgDYKSGs4M/s1600-h/sandbox_horde.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/RrzvUHFS8XI/AAAAAAAABFg/DGgDYKSGs4M/s400/sandbox_horde.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5097212007054242162" /></a> <strong>Photo by <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2007/07/olga-wunderlich-interviews-great-escape.html">Great Escape</a></strong>. <em>Finally, we decided to try some suicide sauce with our brains to enhance the flavourless flavour and sure enough, it was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonestown">Second Jonestown without the snipers</a>! I mean, we were in the safe part of the combat zone after all, right? Mass suicide is the best way to gain mass appeal so we figured we would try this method for a change..usually, we act like real martyrs and just re-enter the space but....uhhhh... it is all for the sake of <a href="http://www.the-avastar.com">art-stardom</a>, right?</em><br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/RrzvJ3FS8WI/AAAAAAAABFY/ldKW8SYUUjI/s1600-h/dead_zombies.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/RrzvJ3FS8WI/AAAAAAAABFY/ldKW8SYUUjI/s400/dead_zombies.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5097211830960583010" /></a> <strong>Photo by <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2007/07/olga-wunderlich-interviews-great-escape.html">Great Escape</a></strong>. <em>Most of us are dead at this point but you will notice <a href="http://transpiresl.blogspot.com">Tran Spire</a> (standing in the center with the turquoise hair) seems to be gaining weight from all this liquid gluttony. Oh wait, maybe it is the <a href="http://chocnvodka.blogware.com/blog/SecondLife">vodka</a> that is keeping him alive and supersizing? He did die by the end of our performance, this much is guaranteed.</em><br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/RrzvB3FS8VI/AAAAAAAABFQ/tHZzi7oIRrk/s1600-h/zombies_lying.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/RrzvB3FS8VI/AAAAAAAABFQ/tHZzi7oIRrk/s400/zombies_lying.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5097211693521629522" /></a> <strong>Photo by <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2007/07/olga-wunderlich-interviews-great-escape.html">Great Escape</a></strong>. <em>Here is a good shot of the bulk of us who have successfully opened <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven's_Gate_(cult)">Heaven's Gate</a> to see yet another banal safe zone in a combat sim, sigh! </em><br /><br />So much for the White Light! SIGH! Adios, performance art fans! Stay tuned for the up and coming "Zombie Attack: 29 Avatars Later" movie coming to your blog-theaters soon.Jeremy O. Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05233583737368132332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7800162604806417592.post-91360168855947503622007-08-09T15:19:00.000-07:002008-12-11T08:11:18.615-08:00BREAKING NEWS III VIDEO!<embed style="width:400px; height:326px;" id="VideoPlayback" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-3130355944773536864&hl=en-CA" flashvars=""> </embed>If you cannot see the embedded video, <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3130355944773536864">click here</a>.<br /><br />To read more about this performance to also read the full chat-transcript, <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2007/08/inter-access-summer-workshop.html">click here</a>.<br /><br />To watch BREAKING NEWS II and read more about this prequel, <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2006/12/breaking-news-2nd-official-second-front.html">click here</a>.<br /><br />To read about the original BREAKING NEWS performance from 2006, <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2006/11/breaking-news-1st-second-front.html">click here</a>.<br /><br />And now, a description of the third installment of this BREAKING NEWS miniseries...<br /><br /><strong>BREAKING NEWS III (2007)</strong><br /><br />Official Video info:<br /><br />Second Front is a pioneering avatar performance art group in the mainstream, virtual world, Second Life.<br /><br />This video is a machinima document of a live performance by Second Front for Interaccess Gallery in Toronto. For this performance sequel, Second Front stormed the Reuters News Building in order to deliver their own breaking news headlines.<br /><br />This video was edited by Man Michinaga (Patrick Lichty).<br /><br />The members of Second Front are:<br /><br /><a href="http://post.thing.net/node/1207">Man Michinaga</a> (<a href="http://www.voyd.com/voyd">Patrick Lichty</a>)<br /><br /><a href="http://wirxliflimflam.blogspot.com">Wirxli Flimflam</a> (Jeremy Owen Turner)<br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_67DNriNNHHY/Rdm5YHneKLI/AAAAAAAAAF0/864ipJiXNSA/s1600-h/Snapshot_019.jpg">AliseIborg Zhaoying</a> (<a href="http://www.simulex.com">Penny Leong Browne</a>)<br /><br /><a href="http://transpiresl.blogspot.com">Tran Spire</a> (<a href="http://www.dougjarvis.ca">Doug Jarvis</a>)<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DINewYBkXZU ">Lizsolo Mathilde</a> (<a href="http://www.lizsolo.com">Liz Solo</a>)<br /><br /><a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2007/07/olga-wunderlich-interviews-great-escape.html">Great Escape</a> (<a href="http://www.kildall.com/artwork/paradiseahead.html">Scott Kildall</a>)<br /><br /><a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2006/11/me-sitting-outside-of-reuters-building.html">Tea Chenille</a> (<a href="http://www.myspace.com/exskuces">Tanya Skuce</a>) - absent<br /><br /><a href="http://www.gazirababeli.com">Gazira Babeli</a> (classified) - absentJeremy O. Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05233583737368132332noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7800162604806417592.post-74766183202916937652007-08-07T14:18:00.001-07:002008-12-11T08:11:19.420-08:00BREAKING NEWS: SECOND FRONT WILL BE BREAKING MORE NEWS VERY SHORTLY!<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/Rrjhu3FS8UI/AAAAAAAABFI/OchdRIEtl6Q/s1600-h/bREAKING_nEWS.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/Rrjhu3FS8UI/AAAAAAAABFI/OchdRIEtl6Q/s400/bREAKING_nEWS.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5096071173546111298" /></a><em> <strong>Photo by <a href="http://www.voyd.com/voyd">Man Michinaga</a>.</strong> A still from the upcoming <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2007/07/breaking-news-iii-at-inter-access-and.html">Breaking News III</a> machinima video currently being edited by Man Michinaga has just been released to the public for this blog posting. Pictured from left-right: <a href="http://wirxliflimflam.blogspot.com">Wirxli Flimflam</a>, <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2007/03/man-in-interim.html">Man Michinaga</a> and <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2007/07/olga-wunderlich-interviews-great-escape.html">Great Escape</a>.</em><br /><br /><strong><em>BREAKING NEWS: </em><br />Man Michinaga is working hard on the <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2007/07/breaking-news-iii-at-inter-access-and.html">Breaking News III</a> <a href="http://www.machinima.com">machinima</a> Video! <br />Details to follow...<br /><br /><em>DEVELOPING STORY:</em> <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2007/04/not-out-of-gutter-yet-but-back-in-build.html">Man Michinaga</a> and many others are also working hard to archive, edit and upload the most recent <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2007/03/second-front-in-exibart-magazine-italy.html">Second Front</a> performance, <em>"Zombie Attack: 28 Avatars Later"</em>.<br /><br /><em>JUST IN:</em> <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2006/12/welcome-from-great-escape.html">Great Escape</a> has produced a re-edit of <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2007/01/ars-virtua-performance-video-and-lythes.html">Second Front's Border Patrol performance</a> at <a href="http://www.arsvirtua.com">Ars Virtua</a>. This edit is based around the unique point of view of the videographer avatar, Dante Mistral.<br />To watch it on Blip TV, <a href="http://blip.tv/file/332057">click here</a>.</strong>Jeremy O. Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05233583737368132332noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7800162604806417592.post-41372475146771041462007-08-06T23:13:00.001-07:002008-12-11T08:11:26.654-08:00Inter-Access Summer Workshop Reflections...<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/RrgPwTO5AFI/AAAAAAAABE4/txXlTA72Nv8/s1600-h/interaccesspartytime2007_2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/RrgPwTO5AFI/AAAAAAAABE4/txXlTA72Nv8/s400/interaccesspartytime2007_2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5095840300840583250" /></a><strong><em>Photo by <a href="http://miulewtakahe.blogspot.com">Miulew Takahe</a>.</em></strong> <br /><em>True to form and within a matter of milliseconds, <a href="http://rhizome.org/thread.rhiz?thread=24830&page=1">Second Front</a> quickly transform what was meant to be a formal workshop series at <a href="http://www.interaccess.org/">Inter-Access Gallery</a> in Toronto (Canada) into a surrealistic performance art arena...This workshop series took place on July 23rd, 2007.</em><br /><br /><strong>NOTE: <a href="http://www.iandaffern.ca">Ian Daffern</a> from the <a href="http://www.globeandmail.com">Globe and Mail</a> (Toronto) made a special video-report about this workshop series featuring Second Front. To watch it, <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/Page/document/video/vs?id=RTGAM.20070727.wv_secondlife29">click here</a>.</strong><br /><br /><em>"<a href="http://www.kildall.com/artwork/secondfront.html">Second Front</a> members recently participated in the <a href="http://www.interaccess.org/workshops/summer.php">summer workshop series held at the Inter-Access Digital Media Centre in Toronto</a> (Canada) that had our avatar performers, <a href="http://post.thing.net/files/manport.jpg">Man Michinaga</a> (<a href="http://www.voyd.com/voyd">Patrick Lichty</a>) and <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2007/07/olga-wunderlich-interviews-great-escape.html">Great Escape</a> (<a href="http://www.kildall.com">Scott Kildall</a>) making <a href="http://www.getafirstlife.com">Real Life</a> appearances at InterAccess and the rest of us, <a href="http://transpiresl.blogspot.com">Tran Spire</a> (<a href="http://www.dougjarvis.ca">Doug Jarvis</a>), <a href="http://www.lizsolo.com">Liz Solo</a>, <a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_67DNriNNHHY/RbtX-XB8QbI/AAAAAAAAAA0/PrlYonDZmrc/s1600-h/HazardousSnapshot_012.jpg">AliseIborg Zhaoying</a> (<a href="http://www.simulex.com">Penny Leong Browne</a>) and <a href="http://wirxliflimflam.blogspot.com">Wirxli FlimFlam </a>(<a href="http://classicblogs.blogspot.com">Jeremy Owen Turner</a>) giving workshops online that were projected into the gallery space itself..."<br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/RrgPpTO5AEI/AAAAAAAABEw/FQi__FJY_tg/s1600-h/interaccesspartytime2007.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/RrgPpTO5AEI/AAAAAAAABEw/FQi__FJY_tg/s400/interaccesspartytime2007.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5095840180581498946" /></a><strong><em>Photo by <a href="http://miulewtakahe.blogspot.com">Miulew Takahe</a>.</em></strong><br /><br />"... <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2007/07/breaking-news-iii-at-inter-access-and.html">For the RL workshop event, Second Front banded together and performed 'Breaking News III' a text-based performance in which we stormed the Reuter's building in Second Life announcing 'Breaking News' headlines about Second Front's clandestine operations and notorious affiliations in-world. </a><br /><br />The online workshops that were projected into the <a href="http://www.getafirstlife.com">RL</a> gallery space of <a href="http://www.interaccess.org">InterAccess</a> were held at <a href="http://www.secondlife.com">Second Life's</a> <a href="http://iam.colum.edu/community/manifestSL/">Columbia College</a> which turned out to be a challenging space to present. With exception to <a href="http://transpiresl.blogspot.com">Tran Spire's</a> workshop, the Avatar's Way, the rest of us had to contend with technical issues that was largely due to an overloaded prim count (<a href="http://wirxliflimflam.blogspot.com/2007/05/spectacle-fortuna-parade-on-columbia.html">Columbia College</a> is a sumptuous space with floating sculptures, murals and intricate architectural elements)..." <br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/RrgOyzO4_-I/AAAAAAAABEA/u6JvqqD1ong/s1600-h/sf_23rdjuly2007_003.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/RrgOyzO4_-I/AAAAAAAABEA/u6JvqqD1ong/s400/sf_23rdjuly2007_003.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5095839244278628322" /></a><strong><em>Photo by <a href="http://miulewtakahe.blogspot.com">Miulew Takahe</a>.</em></strong> After awhile, the workshop venue begins to look increasingly informal and constantly in a state of perpetualizing <a href="http://www.fluxus.org">Fluxus</a>.<br /><br />"...Crashing, frozen avatars, major lag, and tools that produced crazy errors demanded a Second Front response to the unpredictable nature of the event. How did we respond? The only way we know how - by improvising our way through our workshops that produced some wonderful surprises and reactions from the participants. One can say that we didn't so much present our workshops, but performed them!"</em> <br /><strong>- Foreward by <a href="http://www.simulex.com">AliseIborg Zhaoying</a> a.k.a. Penny Leong Browne.</strong><br /><br />Here are our individual reflections about the workshops we gave:<br /><br /><em><strong><a href="http://transpiresl.blogspot.com">Tran Spire</a> - A self-help workshop for creative avatars</strong></em><br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/RrgPXzO5ACI/AAAAAAAABEg/YMs-YR7teCc/s1600-h/tranhelp_interaccess_2007-4.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/RrgPXzO5ACI/AAAAAAAABEg/YMs-YR7teCc/s400/tranhelp_interaccess_2007-4.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5095839879933788194" /></a><strong><em>Photo by <a href="http://miulewtakahe.blogspot.com">Miulew Takahe</a>.</em></strong><em>Here is <a href="http://transpiresl.blogspot.com">Tran Spire</a> beginning his extremely "hands-on" self-help workshop/lecture/seminar...This was the very first workshop presentation of the day... </em><br /><br /><em>"There was a gallant turn-out for the first workshop of the evening Self help for avatars. Participants and friends were eager to unfold the onion skins of their virtual psyche's to unleash the self confidence and creative potential that each avatar relies upon for entertainment and self preservation. After the logistics of handing out a grab-bag of debaucherous goodies, we settled into the participatory program exercising the three guiding principles: <br /><br /><strong>Intoxication</strong> - being an avatar can feel similar to being intoxicated all of the time, get used to it.<br /><br /><strong>Fashion</strong> - the surface between the inside and outside world needs to work for you.<br /><br /><strong>Responsibility</strong> - defer this to others, let them worry whether you are a consistent individual or not." </em><br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/RrgPQjO5ABI/AAAAAAAABEY/D75_nyFE_Xo/s1600-h/tranhelp_interaccess_2007_2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/RrgPQjO5ABI/AAAAAAAABEY/D75_nyFE_Xo/s400/tranhelp_interaccess_2007_2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5095839755379736594" /></a><strong><em>Photo by <a href="http://miulewtakahe.blogspot.com">Miulew Takahe</a>.</em></strong><em>For most of <a href="http://transpiresl.blogspot.com">Tran Spire's</a> workshop, avatars helped themselves (in true "self-help" fashion) to all sorts of goodies including fashion accessories and <a href="http://www.secondlife.com">SL</a> drugs.</em><br /><br />[16:55] Tran Spire: This workshop will start as a hands on, activity based session where we will be playing with some objects and scripts. This will give each avatar a chance to exercise some of the more indulgent aspects of Second Life and self / avatar manipulation. <br />[16:56] Tran Spire: Section 1: Intoxication will involve some moving around<br />[16:56] Tran Spire: we are going to test the lagginess here in the auditorium<br />[16:57] BubbleGum Canning: thanks :D<br />[16:57] Tran Spire: In the folder that I have provided you will see an assortment of libations and other essentials for avatar delight <br />[16:57] Tran Spire: Personal Ban Zone, Placard/Black - Self help for avatars, Absolut vodka, Glass of Champagne, Giger Bar Red Wine, LOTS OF TEXTURES, Flight Feather, Self help Cape, Roller Skates, Absynthe, Bored Dance, Spread Eagle, Tran Spire Blue Doo <br />[16:58] Zabeth Lilliehook: like the buckyball seats<br />[16:58] Tran Spire: Please grab a drink from this file, this part is very important<br />[16:58] Absolut vodka whispers: thanks<br />[16:58] Tran Spire: I personally enjoy the Absolut Vocka, it has a nice kick every once in a while <br />[16:59] Absolut vodka whispers: thanks<br />[16:59] Borisz Nagy: freaky, d00dz<br />[16:59] Fau Ferdinand: champagne and popcorn , an unbeatable combination<br />[16:59] sake whispers: watch that third sip<br />[16:59] Tran Spire: You will also see some cigarettes please wear those as well <br />[17:00] BubbleGum Canning: but i dont smoke :(<br />[17:00] Tran Spire: the object of this portion of the workshop is to experience Intoxication and the general affect of being an avatar<br />[17:00] Tran Spire: Performance art can be easier than you think! <br />[17:01] Tran Spire: Please attach what ever you can and start moving around<br />[17:01] Tran Spire: the idea is to get used to being intoxicated as an avatar<br />[17:02] Tran Spire: For the more advanced participants in the workshop, you might try to make your operator feel noxious operating the computer <br />[17:03] Tran Spire: ok, first exercise<br />[17:03] Tran Spire: spin around for 2 minutes<br />[17:03] Tran Spire: on the spot<br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/RrgPEzO5AAI/AAAAAAAABEQ/lK-IjcyF214/s1600-h/tranhelp_interaccess_2007_gift2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/RrgPEzO5AAI/AAAAAAAABEQ/lK-IjcyF214/s400/tranhelp_interaccess_2007_gift2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5095839553516273666" /></a><strong><em>Photo by <a href="http://miulewtakahe.blogspot.com">Miulew Takahe</a>.</em></strong><em>Towards the end of <a href="http://transpiresl.blogspot.com">Tran's</a> seminar, it was not apparent if all the avatar-empowerment was positive and tranquil. One such avatar (pictured here) seemed to be reacting to the drugs and guns in a somewhat aggressive manner...It must have been the drugs because as you will find out soon enough, the drugs seemed to be affecting more than one person in a hostile and homocidal way..</em><br /><br /><em>"...Based on an initial post-workshop analysis, I believe the group reached some very powerful and important insights into the complex and dynamic composition of an avatar self. With workshop tools and constructive criticism in hand all participants will now have some defense against any future dark-days dealing with <a href="http://web.mit.edu/sturkle/www/Life-on-the-Screen.html">avatar identity issues</a>..." </em><br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/RrgO8jO4__I/AAAAAAAABEI/2nVHanQ0ha0/s1600-h/tranhelp_interaccess_2007_fire.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/RrgO8jO4__I/AAAAAAAABEI/2nVHanQ0ha0/s400/tranhelp_interaccess_2007_fire.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5095839411782352882" /></a><strong><em>Photo by <a href="http://miulewtakahe.blogspot.com">Miulew Takahe</a>.</em></strong><em>Hmmm..Was it getting hot in here or was it just that the avatars had helped themselves too much to some of the more corrosive party favours for the positivity-challenged?</em><br /><br /><em>"...I would like to thank all of the avatars who attended and made this workshop a <a href="http://www.getafirstlife.com">RL</a> experience (list withheld due to client confidentiality agreement). <br /><br />Tran Spire" - <strong>Text reflections by <a href="http://transpiresl.blogspot.com">Tran Spire</a></strong>.</em><br /><br /><em><strong><a href="http://www.lizsolo.com">Liz Solo</a> – Frontiers of the Virtual Playground</strong></em><br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/RrgNwDO4_3I/AAAAAAAABDI/uP29XbCFKeY/s1600-h/close_up_of_Liz_interaccess.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/RrgNwDO4_3I/AAAAAAAABDI/uP29XbCFKeY/s400/close_up_of_Liz_interaccess.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5095838097522360178" /></a><strong><em>Photo by <a href="http://miulewtakahe.blogspot.com">Miulew Takahe</a>.</em></strong><em>Here is a close-up of <a href="http://www.lizsolo.com">Liz</a> during her presentation of her <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DINewYBkXZU">music machinima video, "Amazing"</a>.</em><br /><br /><em>"<a href="http://www.lizsolo.com">Liz Solo's</a> workshop demonstrated how even the most customized tools in <a href="http://www.secondlife.com">Second Life</a>, the most well thought out plans will need to be adapted on the spot due to the ever-evolving and untamed nature of <a href="http://www.secondlife.com">SL</a> environments..."<br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/RrgOMTO4_6I/AAAAAAAABDg/z8IoLfleFus/s1600-h/galandhorse_interaccess2007.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/RrgOMTO4_6I/AAAAAAAABDg/z8IoLfleFus/s400/galandhorse_interaccess2007.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5095838582853664674" /></a><strong><em>Photo by <a href="http://miulewtakahe.blogspot.com">Miulew Takahe</a>.</em></strong><em>An example of the kind of drunken and drugged residue that resulted from <a href="http://transpiresl.blogspot.com">Tran Spire's</a> Self-Help workshop...this was the sort of leftover that <a href="http://www.lizsolo.com">Liz</a> had to deal with when she began her presentation.</em><br /><br />"...Amid the chaos of avatars still drunk from <a href="http://transpiresl.blogspot.com">Tran Spire's</a> excellent workshop, with a giant horse head and other props floating through the space <a href="http://www.lizsolo.com">Liz</a> showed workshop participants examples of the unexpected. She demonstrated some of the limitations/boundaries of the technology - from multiple crashes, to being de-winged upon re-entry to displaying her avatar stuck in an uncompromising pose that could not be rectified. <br /><br />After several futile attempts at opening the program containing part of her presentation Liz Solo then chatted with participants about the possibilities for interaction and collaboration that exist in the <a href="http://www.metaversemessenger.com">SL metaverse</a>, including the notion of creating <a href="http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/">idealized communities</a>..." <br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/RrgODzO4_5I/AAAAAAAABDY/Ilh50Y4hrTE/s1600-h/Lizlecture2007.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/RrgODzO4_5I/AAAAAAAABDY/Ilh50Y4hrTE/s400/Lizlecture2007.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5095838436824776594" /></a><strong><em>Photo by <a href="http://miulewtakahe.blogspot.com">Miulew Takahe</a>.</em></strong><em>Another view of <a href="http://www.lizsolo.com">Liz's</a> presentation which further illustrated the kind of "virtual playground" she was referring to for the duration of her workshop.</em><br /><br />"...Finally she screened two pieces of <a href="http://www.machinima.com">machinima</a> to show examples of how <a href="http://www.secondlife.com">Second Life</a> can be used as a creation tool - <br />a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DINewYBkXZU">music video created in Second Life</a> and an experimental clip super-imposing <a href="http://www.secondlife.com">Second Life</a> video over <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flkgNn50k14">Real Life video</a>. <a href="http://www.lizsolo.com">Liz's</a> workshop exemplified how presentation in virtual space is challenging, exploratory and immediate - one is constantly responding to unruly, hilarious and sometimes frustrating elements while actively seeking ways to communicate."</em> <br />– <strong>Personal reflection written from a <a href="http://malaysia.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070724022932AAAFxpY">3rd person POV</a> by <a href="http://www.lizsolo.com">Liz Solo</a>. </strong><br /><br /><br /><em><strong><a href="http://wirxliflimflam.blogspot.com">Wirxli Flimflam</a> – <a href="http://odysseyart.ning.com/profile/Wirxli">Wirxli Flimflam’s</a> <a href="http://www.facade.com/celebrity/photo/Andy_Warhol.jpg">15 Minutes of Fame</a>:</strong></em><br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/RrgN6TO4_4I/AAAAAAAABDQ/jYr33sg3u6A/s1600-h/sf_23rdjuly2007_002.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/RrgN6TO4_4I/AAAAAAAABDQ/jYr33sg3u6A/s400/sf_23rdjuly2007_002.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5095838273616019330" /></a><strong><em>Photo by <a href="http://miulewtakahe.blogspot.com">Miulew Takahe</a>.</em></strong> <em>Here is a pic of <a href="http://wirxliflimflam.blogspot.com">Wirxli Flimflam</a> sitting next to <a href="http://spinstersblog.blogspot.com/2007/06/pgup-artist-fau-ferdinand.html">Fau Ferdinand</a>. The snazzy shades conceal a <a href="http://www.the-avastar.com">Ava-Star</a> that is completely drugged out of his/her mind and feeling the fleetingless fame of a genuine SLebrity...it was only when <a href="http://wirxliflimflam.blogspot.com">Wirxli</a> finally had to deliver a presentation was there any sort of stirring and yes, stylish stumbling towards the podium...</em><br /><br /><em>"Well, even though I prepared a formal lecture for the Teacher’s Pet auto-lecturn, I must admit that the nature of this realtime event lured me towards a more performative and hands-on (the drugs) presentation....ooops! Thanks to all the laggy <a href="http://www.secondlife.com">SL</a> drugs I took earlier in the day to relieve my virtual nerves, I was stuck practically passed out in my chair next to <a href="http://www.slatenight.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=114&Itemid=2">Fau Ferdinand</a> for most of the lecture and could barely walk by the time it was my turn to present. <br /><br />If you really want to succeed as a <a href="http://www.the-avastar.com">SLebrity</a> in <a href="http://www.secondlife.com">SL</a>, you really need to feel the fame coursing through your pixellated veins, if you know what I mean. Even during the assassination attempt on my life mid-way through the workshop series, I barely stirred – how cool is that?" </em><br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/RrgOmjO4_9I/AAAAAAAABD4/0L-jGMvGrJM/s1600-h/fau_shoots_man_001.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/RrgOmjO4_9I/AAAAAAAABD4/0L-jGMvGrJM/s400/fau_shoots_man_001.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5095839033825230802" /></a><strong><em>Photo by <a href="http://miulewtakahe.blogspot.com">Miulew Takahe</a>.</em></strong><em>Just before Wirxli's workshop is about to begin, gunshots ricochet throughout Columbia College's virtual campus. <a href="http://wirxliflimflam.blogspot.com">Wirxli</a> ducks (well, nods off) for cover in the comfort of his/her seat while his/her personal bodyguard du jour attempts to locate the perpetrators of this assassination attempt. At the end of the day, it turns out that <a href="http://wirxliflimflam.blogspot.com">Wirxli's</a> colleague in <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2007/03/martyr-sauce-wirxlis-perspective.html">Second Front</a> (<a href="http://post.thing.net/node/1207">Man Michinaga</a>) and his/her trigger-happy best friend (<a href="www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gSPgkmzmas">Fau Ferdinand</a>) were involved in some sort of routine performance-art shootout.</em><br /><br /><em>"...I was originally going to say before the captivated audience that I <a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/Rica0DzxXSI/AAAAAAAAAk0/cVTEgoa1LCM/s1600-h/goodguardshot.jpg">hired bodyguards</a> solely for optics and to enhance my <a href="http://www.the-avastar.com">SLebrity</a> mystique but when the gunfire started spraying, I realized that I actually needed the service..." </em> <br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/RrgOejO4_8I/AAAAAAAABDw/r7CdT0vEb_M/s1600-h/fau_shoots_man_003.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/RrgOejO4_8I/AAAAAAAABDw/r7CdT0vEb_M/s400/fau_shoots_man_003.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5095838896386277314" /></a><strong><em>Photo by <a href="http://miulewtakahe.blogspot.com">Miulew Takahe</a>.</em></strong> Here is a close-up of <a href="http://odysseyart.ning.com/profile/Fauchard410">Fau</a> with her <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BFG9000">big gun</a>...<br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/RrgOUjO4_7I/AAAAAAAABDo/rGtFVCvW9W8/s1600-h/fau_shoots_man_004.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/RrgOUjO4_7I/AAAAAAAABDo/rGtFVCvW9W8/s400/fau_shoots_man_004.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5095838724587585458" /></a><strong><em>Photo by <a href="http://miulewtakahe.blogspot.com">Miulew Takahe</a>.</em></strong> ...and here is a close-up of <a href="http://odysseyart.ning.com/profile/Patlichty">Man</a> with his <a href="http://www.gamers.org/docs/FAQ/bfgfaq/">big gun</a>.<br /><br /><em>"...In conclusion, I guess you could say that I “led by example” and illustrated in detail to the <a href="http://www.interaccess.org">Inter-Access</a> crew the virtues (and vices) about how important it was to live out a drugged-up <a href="http://www.the-avastar.com">SLebrity</a> life-style...it was a good thing I wore shades as I became a real role-play role-model for the delayed and debauched ;-)"</em><br />- <strong>Text by <a href="http://wirxliflimflam.blogspot.com">Wirxli Flimflam</a>.</strong><br /><br /><em><strong><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_67DNriNNHHY/Rdm5YHneKLI/AAAAAAAAAF0/864ipJiXNSA/s1600-h/Snapshot_019.jpg">AliseIborg Zhaoying</a> - Collisions of Artifice and the Real:</strong></em><br /> <br /><em>"There were definite collisions in my workshop - collisions with technology - my Teachers Pet tool , problems rezzing, lag and crashing constantly causing my avatar to come to a stand still, literally. When my spot eventually came up, all I could do was improvise my lecture so I took to the lectern and delivered my topic in a series of <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2007/07/breaking-news-iii-at-inter-access-and.html">'Breaking News'</a> sound bytes that resulted in a fragmented riff of theory and sensationalist news about <a href="http://www.myfirstsecondlife.com/second-front/index.htm">Second Front's past interventions</a>. <br /><br />A further reprocessing of my original text came about through a <a href="http://babelfish.altavista.com/">Babel translator </a>that make text appear in a thought bubble above my head. <br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/RrgPhTO5ADI/AAAAAAAABEo/h-phj98lIik/s1600-h/SecondFront_Interaccess_Lecture2007.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_CovosU3EHQ8/RrgPhTO5ADI/AAAAAAAABEo/h-phj98lIik/s400/SecondFront_Interaccess_Lecture2007.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5095840043142545458" /></a><strong><em>Photo by <a href="http://miulewtakahe.blogspot.com">Miulew Takahe</a>.</em></strong> <em>Here is a pic displaying <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2007/04/tower-of-babelfish-reported-in-slnn.html">Second Front's Tower of Babelfish example</a> that being discussed in detail by <a href="http://www.simulex.com">AliseIborg Zhaoying</a> in the final workshop presentation of the day.</em><br /><br />We had used this tool in a previous performance, <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com/2007/04/tower-of-babelfish-video.html">Tower of Babelfish</a>, that interpreted what was entered in the chat window into a bizarre remix of semantics and morphology. Needless to say, theory and practice never looked more sublime to me! Also, I think there were definitely clashes of the 'Artifice' (critical theory and <a href="http://slfront.blogspot.com">Second Front</a> praxis posing as <a href="http://www.nowpublic.com/second_fronts_tower_of_babelfish_performance">news</a>) and the 'Real' (<a href="http://www.getafirstlife.com">RL</a> gallery turning off its lights!). <br /><br />This juxtaposition between what was happening in <a href="http://www.getafirstlife.com">RL</a> and what was going on in-world, produced moments of ambiguity as to how our avatars should react and behave. I sensed that the avatars around me were definitely feeling slightly awkward, uncertain, even slightly dumbfounded at first - asking questions like 'What's going on here?' and some even adding to their own 'Breaking News'. <br /><br />My workshop, in this way, turned out to be much more about performance, especially improvisation and ironically, created an actual situation in which social codes of conduct within <a href="http://www.secondlife.com">Second Life</a> were definitely challenged!" </em><br /><strong>– Text description by <a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_67DNriNNHHY/Rdm1wnneKII/AAAAAAAAAFM/a4pBAu3qQ_k/s1600-h/Snapshot_020.bmp">AliseIborg Zhaoying</a> a.k.a. <a href="http://www.simulex.com">Penny Leong Browne</a>.</strong>Jeremy O. Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05233583737368132332noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7800162604806417592.post-40411917418528636262007-08-01T06:20:00.000-07:002008-12-11T08:11:26.925-08:00Friends, prepare...<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_lXwxJkl5FTE/RrCJJqfiUHI/AAAAAAAAAB8/t6hz4RhKKCk/s1600-h/zoombie.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_lXwxJkl5FTE/RrCJJqfiUHI/AAAAAAAAAB8/t6hz4RhKKCk/s320/zoombie.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5093721977674420338" /></a><br />All we'll say.<br />Told you we were practicing...Patrick Lichtyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15884452729664094542noreply@blogger.com0